Word: boons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this image was just a concoction of some concocted societal consciousness then the goal Harvard. I had worshipped through my four years at high school was false. A blow to my bloated sense of self-worth, perhaps, but a boon to my personality because it made me a skeptic...
...with brisk sales to U.S. service members, has waned since their departure in 1985. The prospect of increased tourism appears bleak. Grenada's twelve hotels remain half empty during peak season. Cruise ships make regular stops, but the mad dashes of passengers through gift shops are hardly a permanent boon to the economy. Vendors hawking spices and tropical shirts comb the beaches for stray tourists...
Sometimes the hunger in my belly can rub off to other areas of my life--especially my reporting and news gathering which has been a boon to this paper and, I'm sure you're sure, to the whole of the community...
...ironic that precisely the blue-collar middle-class districts of Cambridge comprise the core of the rent control opposition! These long-time Cambridge residents consider rent control a boon to the rich. They find that the policy raises everyone's local taxes, while a third of the units go to tenants who make more than the national median income, and nine percent go to tenants earning over $55,000 per year...
...even though Iran has continually proven itself a liability for Reagan, the Middle East nation can easy become a symbolic boon for the ailing president, enabling him to reestablish himself as an itchy-fingered Dirty Harry...