Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...summer and late Labor Day meant that the normal back-to-school spending sprees never really revved up. Some shoppers, it seems, were just not sure what they wanted to buy. Many were wondering, for example, if the miniskirt was really back. Once inventories piled up, stores had to cut prices to keep their merchandise moving. That depressed earnings. The Limited's stock price dropped 27% over the past month, and the Dress Barn was down...
...more after his death. Even the surrealists, who hated the church on principle, liked him. Indeed there are Zurbarans whose pure literalness might strike a modern eye as surrealistic; for example, his figure of the Sicilian martyr St. Agatha daintily bearing on a platter her breasts (which had been cut off by order of a wicked Roman prefect) looking like two pale pink, heavenly scoops of gelato...
Moreover, the profligate federal spending of the 1980s has helped buy temporary prosperity that will have to be paid for later. Thus the longer the huge deficits go on, the greater the economic hangover that is likely to result when the fiscal pick-me-up is finally cut off. Last week the House and Senate passed a measure that would revive the Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law and stanch the federal red ink to a target of $144 billion during the 1988 fiscal year. Though President Reagan will sign the bill this week, he warned that he would fight...
John Brown, the manager of The Boathouse Bar, says he has also noticed an increase in student business. "Obviously, when you cut down on the odds, you'll do more business," Brown says. He says more college seniors, as well as students at the Kennedy and Business schools, are frequenting the bar this year...
...work. I've sharpened every pencil within a five mile radius. I've shaved, overeaten, cleaned my desk, showered, made tentative plans to someday do my laundry, and called all past and present acquaintances plus a few phoney phone calls because I'm such a cut-up. I am now ready to begin my studies...