Word: buys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When I went back home over the break, I walked into a sports shop to buy a Cowboys cap. After the clerk stop laughing, he showed me a stack of caps. They looked like they hadn't been touched all year. He thought a brown, paper bag would be more appropiate for Dallas' fans. Everybody's a comedian now-a-days...
...anyone who wants to save some money without the hassle of places like the Coop, and help a good cause at the same time, it's a good place to buy books," Lawrence said...
...question about that," adds Bob Dennis, the town Republican Party chairman. This is bad news for many residents whose modest incomes do not match the town's tony image. Says Mike Marceau, a lobster wholesaler: "George Bush does nothing for commercial fishermen. Workingmen can't afford to buy a house here. I don't make enough money to buy property in this town, and I was born here...
There is a growing awareness among Western leaders of the need for workable solutions. French President Francois Mitterrand has suggested allowing an organization like the International Monetary Fund to buy depreciated Latin debt and accept interest payments in line with the loans' discounted value. Author John Kenneth Galbraith and Harvard economist Jeffrey Sachs call for the Latin Americans to declare moratoriums on their current interest payments and pay only as much as they can afford. For some nations the plan would be tantamount to debt forgiveness, which would force banks to write off the loan- loss reserves they have...
...necessities -- housing, fuel and food. Living trees are being chopped down for fuel, grasslands overgrazed by livestock, and croplands overplowed by desperate farmers. Horrifying images of starvation in northeastern Africa have captured world attention in the past decade. In India, according to government reports, 37% of the people cannot buy enough food to sustain themselves. Warned Shri B.B. Vohra, vice chairman of the Himachal Pradesh state land-use board in northern India: "We may be well on the way to producing a subhuman kind of race where people do not have enough energy to deal with their problems...