Word: bonanza
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...implemented measures that encouraged banks and card companies to increase lending to consumers. Anyone who ran up expenditures totaling more than 10% of his annual income on credit cards was granted a 20% income-tax deduction, and long-standing restrictions on cash advances were abolished. The situation was a bonanza for card companies and banks. Miniskirted girls peddled cards on street corners, offering free plush toys and kitchen knives to new applicants...
...hordes of mostly young, tech-savvy members. "It's totally a cult," says Janacek, 25, who adds that most of her friends already use the site. Friendster seems to be a hit with the suits as well. In late October it closed $13 million in financing--a bonanza in these frugal, post-dotcom days...
...most annoying thing about this mess is what a silly controversy this is. Having grown up in Texas, it’s easy for me to empathize with Southern-stereotype frustration. From northeastern editorial pages that reference “Bonanza,” six-shooters and tumbleweed every time they write about Texas to Dean’s unfortunate flag comment, we have to put up with a lot. But even the best of us sometimes indulge in stereotypes—something to avoid, but something that often happens nonetheless. It is safe to assume that Dean?...
...Council on Foreign Relations/Rice University report, noting that the oil sector was "being held together by 'Band-Aids'" and estimating that the Iraqi industry needed $30 billion to $40 billion to rehabilitate active wells and develop new fields. "Put simply," the report continued, "we do not anticipate a bonanza." According to Department of Energy figures, Iraq is pumping only about 1.65 million bbl. of oil a day now, compared with 2.8 million before the war and 3.5 million before 1990, which makes that revelation something of an understatement...
Proving that come senior year, sophomore tutorial is water under the bridge, Shlomo F. Yenklebaum ’04 and Grays “Dirty” Sanchez ’04 treated their former tutorial leader to a beer-and-bong bonanza after chancing upon him on a recent walk back to the quad. While the conversation never turned to the F+ Sanchez received on his tutorial paper, “John Locke: Euro Cock,” Dirty couldn’t resist the temptation to do a little schooling of his own, beating his tutorial leader with...