Word: buys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dawn in the Midwest, and Jane Craig, network-news producer on location, is already hard at work. She jogs outside her motel past a phalanx of newspaper machines and buys a copy of every available paper. She phones her colleagues awake in other motel rooms -- thank heaven, two of them are married, saves a call. She indulges a pal's dead-on impression of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Then she unplugs the phone, sits on her bed and has a good cry: heaving shoulders, racking sobs, a face contorted into a bruised fist, a doll in tears because no one will buy...
...That problem is too much `loose' money and too little concern in Washington about ethics in government," Seymour said in a statement referring to "vast sums of money" spent by corporations and foreign governments "to buy influence and favors...
...December. What does Christmas mean to me? That there's more than a negligible chance I might actually shop at Urban Outfitters, for one thing. Is there any other store in the free world that exists only to sell trinkets to people playing Secret Santa and too cheap to buy something really decent...
Moreover, I've begun thinking in sevens. Remember when Tim Smith '86 (who wore number three) did lots of things in threes on the days before games? Well, it's happening to me. I write seven-page papers, take seven steps when I cross the street, and I buy Macintosh disks in sevens...
...France. Fascinated by the taste and variety of wines he encountered, Parker back home bought every book he could find on the subject. A hobby inexorably became an obsession; soon he and Patricia (they married in 1969) were spending every vacation in Europe, visiting vineyards to taste and buy...