Word: bmws
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moment, most ordinary blacks seem content to wait, to simply appreciate a government that after all these years represents them. They do not expect BMWs in the driveways tomorrow. But they will not wait forever. Houses must be built. Jobs must be created. Land-the seismic fault running through South African history-must be redistributed. If black discontent rises, there is little doubt that the middle-of-the-road government will swerve to the left, not the right...
...great book about a motorcycle adventure will hit the shelves later this summer. A notorious capitalist, Jim Rogers, and a blond half his age, Tabitha Estabrook, ride around the world on two fancy BMWs, up and down Africa and South America, across Siberia, China, Europe -- six continents, 65,000 miles. I wouldn't have given them a chance in Vegas of surviving the bandits, but they weren't worried about bandits. They were too busy looking for investments along the road...
BACK IN THE PALEOCAPITALISTIC ERA, as long ago as 10 years, anthropologists studying the breeding, feeding and plumage patterns of Wall Street concentrated on carnivores -- called gunslingers -- grownup frat boys in yellow ties and red suspenders who peddled junk bonds, drove BMWs and bought $2 million co-ops on Manhattan's East Side. Forget them: today they're fuddled old greedsters sitting around in their East Hampton beach houses wondering what happened...
...diminished even at state-run food stores since price controls were lifted. With inflation racing ahead at an annual rate of more than 1,000%, most middle-class people cannot afford to buy much. Yet high prices don't bother the newly rich who drive by in Mercedes and BMWs on their way to nightclubs that charge $100 a person to dine and dance...
...many of the defendants here today drive BMWs. Most qualify for legal representation at the expense of the public, and many are unemployed...