Word: coldness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These are just a few examples of the voices that have pushed me to my present puffy-eyed state. I wish I had the miracle coffee bean that turned off at exactly 2 a.m. I wish I went to my sister's school, which in cold years adds an extra week to that five-week winter break so they don't waste fuel. I wish I had the answers. I wish I weren't writing this on two hours of what--for lack of a better term--I'll call "rest...
...felt the pinch more keenly than heating-oil customers. During the brutal cold snap last month, when temperatures hovered in the single digits even in parts of the Sunbelt, fuel oil was in such demand that some distributors ran dry. The clamor for supply pushed prices up as high as $1.50 per gal., a 50% increase in one month...
...served up original movies as well, like Faye Dunaway's Cold Sassy Tree and this month's remake of Treasure Island, starring Charlton Heston as Long John Silver. By 1992 the channel plans to churn out four made-for-TV movies a month. TNT also carries N.B.A. basketball (Turner just renewed his package of 50 regular-season games for four more years at the hefty cost of $275 million), and will offer 50 hours of exclusive Winter Olympics coverage in 1992. And if TNT seems to be stealing some thunder (and some programming) from TBS SuperStation, Turner's older...
Just before midnight, she gets off the train, is processed perfunctorily by the border guards at Friedrichstrasse Station, and joins 40 others waiting for a bus in the cold night air. The faces in the line are tired. For many it has been only their first or second visit to the West. They seem subdued. For days, TV and the papers have been filled with reports about the thievery of the former communist leaders. "People feel betrayed," says a young factory worker. "Desolate...
There is a story about cooking a frog. If you put a frog into a pot of boiling water, it will jump right out and you will have no dinner. If you put it into a pot of cold water and slowly heat it, the frog will pay dearly. We have the power to adjust the temperature of our own planet. Let's do it wisely...