Word: foraying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their salaries in U.S. currency can often afford to buy foreign cars, rent big houses, take trips abroad and eat at dollars-only restaurants. Brought up to believe in the egalitarianism of Cuban socialism, some try to share, but they are often rebuffed by friends offended by their foray into capitalism. "It's difficult when I have $20 in my pocket and my friends have 20 pesos," admits Gutierrez...
Chevron's foray into Kazakhstan is part of the biggest global oil rush since energy explorers moved into the Middle East after World War II. Starting with the end of the cold war a few years ago, immense stretches of oil and gas lands -- from the Arctic Circle to China's Tarim Basin to the waters off Vietnam -- have opened up to multinational firms as host countries strive to develop their resources and earn hard currency...
...explanations seem more cogent. As Mark Gauthier, a chaplain for the United Ministry at Harvard, presciently noted in September, "Harvard has been around for 350 years. This modern art stuff is trendy--it's a nineties thing and it's going to be out." Well, at least HRE's foray into modern art is going to be out--out of Holyoke Center, anyway...
...businessman, who had invited me to accompany him on his five-week foray through Russia, where he introduced me with deliberate vagueness as his associate, struggled back into his heavy coat and fur hat and pushed out the door into the frozen night. His shopping trip had only begun, and there were plenty of other bargains to be found...
Deductions were especially handy for the Clintons in those years, when they were needed to offset gains made by Hillary Clinton's foray into commodity trading. She added $26,541 to the family income in 1978 and $72,436 in 1979. Even with deductions, the growth of the Clintons' tax payments outpaced the rise of their income. For 1977, they paid taxes of $8,194 on an adjusted gross income of $41,731. By the next year, their income more than doubled, to $85,214, but their taxes grew faster, to $22,627. For 1979, when their reported income...