Word: buys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Angeles, is giving it her best shot. A single mother of four, she worked for five years as a custodian in a public high school, bringing home $1,000 in a good month. "I was paying $400 a month for child care," she recalls. "We didn't buy anything." When that failed, she began bringing her children to work with her, hiding them in an empty home- economics classroom while she mopped floors and hauled huge barrels of trash for eight hours a day. "I'd sneak them in after the teacher left and check on them every 30 minutes...
...moment, the U.S. and Pakistan are discussing which craft Islamabad should buy. Pakistan wants to buy three Boeing E-3A Sentries. The jet, which the U.S. deploys on the NATO front and in other key strategic areas, is a top- of-the-line technical marvel whose exact capabilities are classified. But Washington says it has no Sentries to spare, and has offered instead the much less sophisticated Grumman E-2C Hawkeye. Capable of tracking more than 600 targets at a range of 300 miles, the propeller-driven Hawkeye is slower and more vulnerable to attack than the Sentry...
...flows through the strait. And the tanker war in the Persian Gulf has been raging for almost four years, during which time the world has seen the greatest oil glut and sharpest price collapse in history. The Administration wants to protect Kuwaiti oil not because the West needs to buy Kuwaiti oil, but because Kuwait needs to sell...
...reminiscent of the Odessa Steps sequence in Potemkin. But the director's chief contribution is to the film's handsome physical design. "I wanted corruption to look very sleek," he says. "Some people in positions of power with ill-gotten money insulate themselves with over-the-top magnificence. They buy paintings and expensive clothes. And deep inside they know they're cheats and killers...
...upheaval was the almost inevitable result of attacks on Allegis from all sides. Its pilots were pressing to buy the airline because they felt Ferris was spending too much time and money buying hotels, to the detriment of the company's core business. Meanwhile, dissident shareholders, led by a trio of Manhattan-based investors called Coniston Partners, launched a campaign to oust management, arguing that the company would be worth far more if it were broken into pieces and sold. The critics pointed to the firm's lackluster financial performance: its net income was only $11.6 million last year...