Word: shop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know that anything is possible in America. A man gets off a boat from another land, sets up shop, and his son becomes a millionaire painting...
...factory, whose 98 acres of floor and 114 ft. of height make it the world's largest building by volume, manager Bill Yoakum went sleepless near Seattle while the plant phased in software that consolidates mountains of manufacturing data. The people who need it include rows of shop-floor engineers, whom mechanics can summon for help by flicking on a light. (Yellow indicates a question, and red is "urgent.") At the same time, Boeing is switching to the Japanese practice of lean inventory management that delivers parts and tools to workers precisely as needed...
...like animals--in fact, especially those who dislike animals--can enjoy Emergency Vets, a cinema-verite take on a Denver veterinary office. Rover and his owner dealing with a run-over paw make great TV. And perhaps the network's cleverest idea of all is The Pet Shop, a talk show with pet jokes in the monologue, pet skits and celebrities who are interviewed with their pets. Animal Planet does feature too much new Lassie and Flipper, but the rest of the original programming demonstrates how broadly appealing a special-interest channel...
...mowed down on the streets of Chicago by a reputed Latin King gang member, Stephen Young was heartbroken. When he learned how the triggerman got the gun, he was furious. The Bryco 9-mm semiautomatic handgun that killed Andrew Young was one of 40 weapons a suburban gun shop sold to a single purchaser. In gun lingo these are "straw buyers," shady middlemen who do a brisk business reselling guns to convicted felons, minors and others with itchy trigger fingers but no legal right to own a gun. "You want to tell me this guy needs 40 guns for self...
...good time to shop for a cheaper mortgage. Last week the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond, a benchmark for the industry, dropped to an all-time low of 5.58%. Experts, who predict that the good news for homeowners will continue in coming months, say most borrowers are opting for 30-year fixed loans, now averaging...