Word: equipe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case, the current surge is occurring most strongly in the industries most sensitive to the cost of borrowing: autos, housing, construction generally. An upturn there tends to boost sales of other products: the steel, rubber and glass going into cars; refrigerators, washing machines, furniture and paint needed to equip and decorate new or resold houses...
...homemaker and mother of three. Though her husband held onto his job as a management- development consultant for a tool manufacturer throughout the recession, she says, for a long time they were "careful" with their money. No more: they have just finished remodeling their basement and now plan to equip it with a new refrigerator, couch and stereo. Tim Sheehy, president of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce, comments, "You wouldn't get anyone in Milwaukee to say there's a boom because of the memory of the last recession. But there's a feeling all of a sudden that...
...people--job and career opportunities for Cambridge residents, encouraging mixed income housing and home ownership opportunities for residents, improving the business climate to retain our much-coveted commercial tax base and thereby avoid the considerable shift in tax burden towards homeowners and tenants, improving our school's curriculum to equip our children for standardized test performances and the future, advancing a sound fiscal municipal plah that allows and encourages reasonable limited development and renewal in appropriate areas with appropriate public review, and creating a more efficient local government to maximize the resources available for the social, educational, health and human...
...equip his flock psychologically for the battles to come, Koresh reportedly played and replayed videos of his favorite movies about the Vietnam War: Platoon, Full Metal Jacket and Hamburger Hill. His followers prepared themselves physically with weight training, military-style drills and obstacle-course runs. To acquaint them with the experience of famine, their vegetarian diet was strictly rationed. Daily life was a harsh mix of work and Bible study. Men labored at construction around the compound, while modestly dressed women did household chores and schooled the children, who were rarely taken off the grounds. Television was forbidden, and children...
...dreamt of in even the maddest consumer's philosophy: buggy whips and barbering aids, covered wagons and canaries, tires and trousseaux, countless doodads that seemed unnecessary until they popped up on the page. From the Sears catalog, known affectionately as the "big book," customers could order everything necessary to equip a house: furniture, appliances, rugs, cooking and eating utensils and paint. Between 1908 and 1937, they could also order the house itself. All told, Sears sold 100,000 prefabricated models, and most of them are still standing and occupied today. Some of the items advertised in the early years seem...