Word: costlier
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...shopping frenzy along with a near tripling in oil prices, lifted interest rates three times in 1999 and twice more in the first three months of 2000. Did anyone get the hint? Nope. Investors were too intoxicated by the enormous money being made in the market. The pain of costlier credit was more than offset by all the paper wealth people were accumulating...
Scotland is the land of Johnny Walker and White Horse, costlier and classier versions of Kentucky's alcoholic pride and joy. Southern Culture of the Skids often goes by the abbreviation "SCOTS." Coincidence? Some whiskeys may be better than others. But the SCOTS and their fans are not above (or, more accurately, below) swigging them...
...increased 38% last year. How do you avoid it? Either pay by credit card or use an escrow service that won't release your money to the seller until you've got your goods. It costs a couple of bucks for each transaction, but it's worth it for costlier items...
...without fashion. The Gap point of view is that if we don't change the style, the business will get stale." You'll see the change in the form of hot pink suede shirts, leather boot-cut jeans and the edgier 1969 collection denims--a higher style and costlier ($78) fashion jean with details like yin-yang designs...