Word: buy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...using fresh paper. Take lecture notes on both sides of each sheet of paper in notebooks or yellow pads. Use handkerchiefs instead of paper tissues--they are cheaper; they don't break; they absorb well and they worked fine for our grandparents. Don't accept bags when you buy things--bring your own if you need one. Use recycled paper; the Boston Food Co-op in Allston sells a limited selection, along with many other environmentally unsound products. Another good source is the Earth Care Paper Company in Wisconsin...
...poles in left and right field whipped back and forth. Though expansion joints at the top of the stadium absorbed the blow, chunks of concrete fell off, precisely as planned. One dangerous block crashed into a seat in Section 53. Only a moment before, its occupant had gone to buy...
...pizazz. Many established companies are repackaging old technology rather than developing daring new products. Manufacturers of such big machines as mainframes and minicomputers are suffering from stagnant sales as customers turn to powerful but less expensive workstations and personal computers. At the same time, many customers are reluctant to buy new hardware because of a shortage of innovative software to provide fresh applications for the machines...
...have any money," says Robert Noyce, chief executive of Sematech, a consortium of computer-chip makers. At the same time, the industry has graduated from an "original placement" business, in which many companies rushed to automate for the first time, to a "replacement" business, in which corporations buy computers only when they need new models...
...about all. Want to know if Nancy had too much power in setting Reagan's agenda? Want to know why she was so obsessed with her husband's image? Or why she backed out of supporting a drug-treatment clinic when local residents objected to the facility? Don't buy the book, because you won't find...