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Aronberg denied ever having made such acampaign promise, but says the council will spendthe rolled over funds, in order to reverse whathe called a tendency on the part of past councilsto "hoard the surplus...
...music today. The Archduke Ferdinand has been just assassinated in Sarajevo." Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop describes getting a glimpse of Charles Lindbergh as he paraded up New York City's Fifth Avenue. The closer the series gets to present day, however, the more it overlaps with a hoard of other TV nostalgia fests. Do we really need another round of tributes to the idealism of the J.F.K. years...
Government economists predict that at first prices will soar and even more shortages may result as people hoard in expectation of still higher prices. But within a few months, they argue, the cost of goods will begin stabilizing and more products will be available than have been seen in years...
...investigative journalist. In the "open-air museum" that is his homeland, he says, farmers go into hock to buy metal detectors, while Sotheby's and Christie's catalogs "sell better than Korans." One Turkish case, tied up in litigation since 1986, involves the country's claim on the Lydian Hoard, a famous collection of 250 gold and silver wares. New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which bought the pieces, does not acknowledge that they came from Turkey...
...there are at least two competing plans being bruited about, and while the debate rages, the tide is running against any sort of cooperation. Republics are starting to set up customs posts and other hindrances to the movement of goods across their borders, and people are beginning to hoard food...