Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pounded out of Fulton County Stadium more than 20 years ago to set the all-time home run record. Got your checkbook ready? Put it back in your pocket, big shot: Unless you've already mailed in your financial statements proving you have at least $100,000 to drop on a slightly used Spalding, Guernsey's doesn't want to hear from you. Still, you can watch the action online, which at these prices is probably the safest thing...
...other hand, can't be killed fast enough--though 2 million a week are being butchered. And therein lies the problem. Hog farming, until recently the most profitable sector in agriculture, is stuck in the mud. A glut of live pigs on the market, exacerbated by a sudden drop in slaughterhouse capacity, has pushed the price of pigs down to levels not seen since the Depression. "It's a lethal mixture," says Al Tank, CEO of the National Pork Producers Council. Across the South and Midwest, farmers are losing thousands of dollars a day, drifting deeper into debt and near...
...covered treats at the office, then you have my sincere congratulations. But if you're like the rest of us, you've slept in, lost your temper and scarfed down the cookies. So now, like millions of other Americans, you have made yet another New Year's resolution to drop a few pounds, exercise more, drink less, stop smoking or just plain chill out. It won't be easy. In fact, you may have already broken the resolution you made last week. But if you're willing to try again, here's a list of tips to improve your chances...
...that has characterized the 20th? This show at the Met's Costume Institute makes the dazzling and utterly convincing visual argument that what facilitated the transition was the influence of Cubist painting and theory. From the tunics of Callot Soeurs to the cylindrical day dresses of Vionnet to the drop-waist skirts of Chanel in the 1920s, fashion's deflation followed the Cubist embrace of the plane. In other words, liberated from corsets, women everywhere owe a thank-you to Picasso and Braque...
Such scenarios are not science-fiction. With the prestidigitation of gene-amplification, only a single drop of blood or a snippet of hair or a scraping of skin can reveal the full length of the human genome, including its myriad flaws. And the potential for abusing that information is already here, as a surprised Paul Billings found in surveys of testing abuses that he conducted. "I advertised for people who had had negative experiences with social agencies, insurers or employers after genetic diagnosis, and I was shocked by the response." The most common complaint was against hard-nosed health insurers...