Word: droppingly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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MOSCOW ON ICE HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR. If you can stand the culture shock, drop by Donald Trump's glitzy Taj Mahal Casino, with its neo-Indian domes and portals, and catch this breathtaking ice-skating gala by a prizewinning troupe of Soviet athletes in dazzling exotic costumes. In Atlantic City, through...
...well, electrifying. As they greeted the President-elect in Gdansk with sparklers and brass bands, Walesa took time to remind Poles of what heroic struggles can accomplish. Declared the country's first postcommunist choice as head of state: "Since we defeated the system without one gunshot or one drop of blood, we can dare to build a new system...
...what a feeling it was! By pointing and clicking my electronic mouse, I could pick up a square of green from one corner of the screen, drop it on a barren stretch of land and watch it blossom into a prairie. I could sprinkle the forest primeval with dinosaurs, insects and birds. I could fill the seas with starfish, lobsters and whales. I could rattle my little planet with computer-generated earthquakes and hurricanes...
...sense, the South offers to some of its black refugees nothing different from what it does to other retirees looking for a slow, peaceful life. "On Sundays you can hear a pin drop anywhere in the city," says Eugene Dykes, 65. Six years ago, he returned to Columbia, S.C., after 29 years in Los Angeles, working mostly as shipping supervisor for the Automobile Club of Southern California. But in a deeper sense, part of the South's appeal to its black emigrants is the strange intimacy that has always existed between the races in the region's rural culture. Their...
...boycotting brands that have opened their own shops. "It's impossible to compete against them," complains association president William Boettge. For small stores, outlets are "making a tough business all the tougher," says John Cox, a recently retired shoe-shop owner in Lawrence, Kans., who saw his business drop more than 15% after a Bass outlet opened nearby and undercut his prices 20% to 30%. The 21,000-member National Sporting Goods Association also discourages manufacturers from opening outlets, though their protests have had little effect...