Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Take Dr. Gary Smith, for example. For the past four years, the Houston urologist has been picking up extra cash by promoting Amway products. Smith says he finds most of his clients at medical conferences, around the hospital or at social events and rarely pitches his patients unless they ask him about...
...insubstantial '90s style to another. Illusion is everything, self-deception is indispensable, and Peterman works behind a scrim of pastness, sometimes hilarious but curiously sweet nonetheless. Peterman sells interesting and fairly good-quality stuff (though he lately got caught in a crunch of high inventory, debt and cash-flow problems). The danger, of course, is that you may get the thing in the mail and try it on (a Sherlock Holmes hat or cape, say, or one of those flouncy, too-much-by-half fin-de-siecle velvet gowns: "We drank Veuve Cliquot...") and find you look absolutely ridiculous...
Each city has pledged $33 to $35 million in cash and services to attract the support of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), but the rewards are well worth the cost. The host city can expect to net over $150 million in direct spending, according to Howard Liebowitz, Boston's director of inter-governmental relations...
...finished stocking up on 1[cent] stamps, here's another way to get rid of those dusty pennies. Just stop by a supermarket like Kroger or A&P, and drop your change (the silver stuff included) into a Coinstar machine, which gives you a voucher good for cash or groceries (less an 8.9% commission). To find a terminal, call...
...Congress official: "As the economy develops and living standards improve, people will enjoy more democracy. But nurturing democracy is a process." Chinese peasants typically do not think about the glories of remaking society. They think about smaller, more parochial matters like building roads and bridges and picking up cash by selling more kiwi fruit and pork. In their eyes, getting the chance to cast a ballot does not yet ring grandly of revolution. They'd rather find a way to get rid of the Pork Despot...