Word: collection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...single gym-junkies are fair game, and conquests are sure to be discussed in the locker rooms. Flirtation tends to intensify during the 5:30-7:30 p.m. rush, although a few gym-junkies a little unclear on the picture always show up in the morning ready to collect digits...
...trading card and Sony PlayStation game; kids collect warriors and dragons and face off in battle...
...fields gave way to shopping centers, and the ponds were paved over to make way for apartment buildings, highways and train lines. "A fish pond would become an arcade center," he says. Pokemon, he says, is a way for children of a new generation to have a chance to collect insects and other creatures the way he did. For example, the Pokemon named Poliwhirl has a belly decorated with a little whirl--Tajiri's memory of the transparent skin of a tadpole with its coiled innards visible beneath. "Everything I did as a kid is kind of rolled into...
...likely to pass Go and collect $200,000. Most claims have to do with a final paycheck you never received, a lost dividend check, a forgotten surplus at your health club. The typical claim paid is less than $1,000. Still, 1 person in 10 owns assets he or she doesn't know about, and if you have moved frequently, your odds are considerably better...
...wine collection is any indication, one can only wonder what must be in this euro-aesthete's art collection. Among the bottles up for bid this week are great trophy wines such as an 1811 Chateau Lafite and a 1945 Chateau Mouton Rothschild, as well as some of the finest and rarest young wines--bottles that an investor can bet will collect a premium at the year 3000 auctions. Just paging through the Sotheby's catalog (it's available online at www.sothebys.com is enough to moisten oenophilic palates. One evident specialty of the collector was assembling "vertical" collections...