Word: buying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hungry? In Harvard Square, your food dollar will buy you anything from paella to Oreo Cookie ice cream, the only flavor in the world with a cult following. Depressed? There is a 24-hour store in the Square that markets marijuana paraphernalia, or, if you're broke, there's the Hare Krishna group that congas through the Square regularly. Bored? Some nice man, usually representing a stereo store, will hand you things to read, and when you're finished, there's a construction project, with real cranes and jackhammers and union members to watch. Wowie zowie...
Approach #5. The Lets's Be Obnoxious Approach. Drink a lot. Try without any style whatsoever to lose your virginity. Get into water fights with kids in the dorm across the way. Buy a lot of Roger Dean posters and put them up in your living room. Cut down your roommates. Throw up at least once. Alienate everyone while you have a good time...
Harvard will buy the Gulf Oil gas station and the surrounding lot at the junction of Mass Ave and Harvard St. from the oil company on September...
...daily. That is precisely the amount by which Saudi Arabia last month boosted its own production in an effort to stabilize prices. The reductions would give a renewed upward push to prices worldwide, notably on the all-important spot market. That is a loose telephone network of traders who buy and sell the small amounts of crude that are not locked up under long-term contracts...
Department of Agriculture economists contended that the Soviet sales would not lead to a repeat of the 1972 episode, when the Soviets secretly bought nearly 20 million metric tons of U.S. grain and sent domestic food prices through the roof. Under a bilateral grain treaty, the Soviets cannot buy more than 8 million metric tons unless the U.S. has extra supplies. Since stockpiles are ample and a near record harvest is in view, the department's chief economist estimated that the huge Soviet purchases would add only .2% to the cost of living index...