Word: buys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even merchandise for sale at the Coop has changed. "Once students came in to buy an apple, and I sent them to the fruit stand. Today, I send them to the computer department," she says. However, not everything changes. According to Cummings,. "where is the restroom?" is still the leading question that employees have to answer...
Computers blink, phones ring, traders frantically shout buy and sell orders in a verbal version of hand-to-hand combat. A typical day on the New York Stock Exchange...
...wait: this may not be Christmas as usual. America's jingle-jangle shopping spree seems muffled so far this year. As customers browse among the cashmere sweaters and compact-disc players, many are having doubts not only about this month's expenditures but also about their whole philosophy of buy, buy, buy. The October stock-market crash and the likelihood of an economic slowdown next year have rekindled the feeling that Americans must reform their spendthrift ways. "Consumers are so far out on a limb," declares Economic Consultant A. Gary Shilling, "that the crash has shocked them into an agonizing...
...properties: sun-coast condos, apartment complexes and, the jewel of the lot, a one-of-a-kind Thoroughbred- and show-horse ranch with 14 rare Paso Finos, prized for their steady ride and high-stepping gait. All offerings are in good shape, previously owned by suspected drug kingpins. (They buy the best.) A steal. Remember our motto at Uncle Sam's: We seize from the sleaze. Their loss is America's gain...
...Beginning next year, interest on savings accounts will be taxed at a 20% rate. In the meantime, at least part of the population has started to loosen up. Credit-card use has risen sharply, especially among the young, and some Japanese are going into debt to take vacations or buy TV sets...