Word: busting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cuomo, that gubernatorial bust...
Only three years ago, New Hampshire enjoyed phenomenal prosperity. Today the question is not when things will get better, but how much worse they will become. In the wake of defense-industry cutbacks, a real estate bust and bank failures, the state's unemployment rate has risen from 2.4% when Bush was elected to 6.9%, the highest September rate ever. In the past two years 10% of New Hampshire's jobs have just disappeared. The rates of increase in the number of people on food stamps and welfare are the nation's highest. Housing experts say a home bought...
...dejection, not frustration. Harvard really needs a chance to bust out and prove to themselves that they are as good as they know they...
...interview with a member of the OBKhSS showed him with his family in a beautiful Moscow apartment, decrying the terrible "profiteers" he has to bust every day. (Who would otherwise make about 100 rubles a month, enough to buy about 50 pounds of potatoes.) Nobody except government officials who can afford to bribe other government officials with money they've gotten from bribes of their own can afford to live in such apartments...
...corner phone with my girlfriend," Slicc recounted. "The Mexican drives up and yells, 'What set you from?' I yell it ain't none of his business, and he busts three caps ((shoots three bullets)) at me. I take out my gun and bust four back . . ." At that point, the father began to wave his arms and shout. Friends of Slicc's and Flipper's pushed the man firmly back inside his house. "Parents don't understand," shrugged Flipper...