Word: buys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...again. Government officials are looking to make the Japanese more voracious consumers, thus loosening dependence on exports and boosting demand for imports. Sacrifice is out, self-indulgence is in. The Japanese are being encouraged to work less, play more, save less, spend more and, while they are at it, buy foreign...
Monetary aspects aside, everyone involved with the book says that it will be a success. "It came out fulfilling what we had in mind," Walther says. "The entries were very lively, had personal voice and were written with a lot of style. I don't expect many people will buy this book unless they're considering a prep school, but we just wanted it to sound real...
...Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd, known as a specialist in parliamentary technique, changed his vote to favor the override so that Senate rules would permit him to move that the vote be reconsidered. He then managed to postpone a vote on this motion by further maneuvering, in order to buy time for pressuring Sanford...
...accepted the funds and will spare me! Spare me that is, provided I promise to use His money to buy myself and even bigger mansion, a larger jacuzzi, more servants, more limosines, and one of those nice polyester suits...
...using the analogy, will Mr. Lichtman also argue that, like a human child, a work of art is in itself affected by its "owner"? Probably not, because after all, a work of art is a thing, while a human baby most definitely isn't. We are allowed to buy things. Do we want to be allowed to buy human beings...