Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...generation of yuppies vie to succeed Al Vellucci, their voices sound flatter and harsher than the full declamations Cambridge has come to expect of its last New Deal populist. Like Harvard Square, the City Council is losing its human touch...
...name it would be a very lucrative, if somewhat schizophrenic magazine. I do not know how to begin to explain the absurdity of this situation. Projects in the arts should not be forced into becoming capitalistic, commercial ventures. A literary magazine should not have to look like the Square Deal...
...often been observed that men who make a great deal of money generally have very limited ideas about what to do with it. Trump's biggest personal expenditures have been on extravagantly luxurious residences. The builder of Trump Tower, whose first Manhattan apartment was a dingy single room overlooking a water tower, originally reserved for himself a $10 million triplex penthouse, but when he first saw yachtsman Khashoggi's pad in the nearby Olympic Tower, which was approximately the size of a Persian Gulf sheikdom, he naturally wanted one just as big or bigger. So he went back to Trump...
Consumer advocates have argued in recent years that CDWs are a lemon of a deal at the usual rate of $10 or more a day. Robert Hunter, president of the National Insurance Consumer Organization, calculates that insurance companies can provide policyholders with comparable protection for about $1 a day. The CDW controversy began to heat up in 1987, when many rental agencies removed the ceiling on customer damage liability, which was typically $3,000, and began holding motorists responsible for the full value of the cars they were renting. That threat helped car-rental clerks persuade more customers to accept...
...mainly East Europeans paying for their travel with other soft currencies who sometimes find in the Soviet Union products that are scarce at home. Western visitors and residents will continue to have access to a wider selection of consumer goods than most Soviets enjoy at stores called beriozkas that deal only in much desired hard currencies...