Word: invest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...terms of music in the suite, however, students who don't want to plunk down substantial amounts of cash for a stereo invest in a boom box rather than oversize speakers for a walkman. Discount Records, on John F. Kennedy St., sells 10 to 15 walkman speaker sets a week versus 20 boom boxes. And walkman speakers are becoming more popular, says Patrick S. Pezzati, the store's assistant manager...
...pleased Sony said last week that it would now invest some $30 million to expand its TV manufacturing plant in San Diego and $5 million in a new headquarters in Cypress. Other overseas firms that have avoided California are also expected to invest there...
...Gilles Peress gives us just his feet, dangling from the top of the frame, an acknowledgment that this bit of village pageantry has its share of the airborne sublime. A statue is carried through the streets in a Holy Week procession. Peress crops out the bearers, the better to invest the figure with an unearthly life of its own. His colors are deeply saturated reds and purples that push his shots into the realm of theatrical fantasy. These are not just pictures of a festival but equivalents of the festival spirit: flushed, headlong and maybe a bit tipsy...
...continued to invest much thought intoher children's upbringing. At the age of five,Charles still seemed to young to go to school, sothe Queen hired a private tutor. In addition tolearning the staples of most children's earlyeducation, Charles studied children in historywith his tutor...
...combines a complimentary word with an apparently innocent but actually murderous modifier. "She is still pretty," for instance, means, "She is long in the tooth" or "Good grief! Is she still around?" Other useful adjectives include "crusty" (obnoxious), "unpredictable" (bonkers), "experienced" (ancient) and "small but well-financed" (don't invest in this turkey...