Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Denver found the best way to teach about money was to let their kids earn some. Ryan, 17, has been mowing lawns since he was 8, and now owns his own equipment. He has managed to stash away $7,800 at his parents' urging. In addition to saving that amount, Ryan was able to splurge on a dirt bike and an impressive sound system. He's eyeing a Ferrari, despite his father's advice that a car is a bad investment. Ryan shrugs off the idea that he might resent having to make his own money when so many other...
...youth, more and more Americans are supplementing and replacing prescription medicines with a profusion of pills and potions that contain various medicinal herbs, vitamins and minerals. Some are proved safe and effective; many are not. Consumers spent more than $12 billion on natural supplements last year--nearly double the amount spent in 1994, and sales continue to grow at better than 10% a year. Shoppers can stock up not only at incense-scented tofu-and-sprouts shops but also at corner pharmacies and supermarkets, and from mail-order houses, websites and Amway distributors who rattle their pillboxes door to door...
Lorrie Moore's Birds of America is a collection of short stories. Originally published individually in magazines, sometimes under other titles, the stories contain a surprisingly strong amount of thematic cohesion. With a few exceptions, the tales each sport an intelligent but dissatisfied heroine, an almost fetish-like interest for said heroine, and a mired or low-key or entirely absent climax...
Many say the ease of editing and formattingtext that a computer allows has above all extendedthe amount of time students have to write papers...
...that felony disenfranchisement laws take away the vote for a wide variety of offenses. For an offender to lose the vote, the report states, "the crime need not have any connection to electoral processes, nor need it be classified as notably serious. Shoplifting or possession of a modest amount of marijuana could suffice...