Word: pricey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Most of our single rooms are made for one person," Dingman says. "We would have to charge them more for rent if we gave them a double room and that would get rather pricey...
...devastating antitrust trial must concentrate the mind wonderfully, however, for Gates has finally focused on his Washington woes. And he is attacking the issue the way he storms into any battle he's losing: identify the problem, open his wallet, and buy a solution. In this case, that means pricey Beltway sluggers like former Reagan imagemaker Mike Deaver; Congressman-cum-fixer Vin Weber; and Tom Downey, former New York Democratic Congressman and close personal friend of Al ("Year 2000") Gore...
...crunch time for the movie business. Print labs, publicity machines, moguls' teeth--all are grinding overtime to get a bunch of pricey or prestige-laden films into theaters by Christmastime. You'd think Hollywood was Toys "R" Us, doing a Simba's share of business at year-end, or that releasing a serious film at holiday time helped win Oscars. No and no. The summer is still box-office prime time; and in the past five years, only six of the 25 Oscar nominees for Best Picture were released in December. Yet that is when studios launch dozens of ambitious...
...hated to give up the stock-market theory I was working on. It was based on the premise that investors gradually lost confidence in the market by patronizing New York City restaurants. In pricey New York restaurants these days, there are two types of patrons whose presence--almost always in packs--can make a diner who's celebrating a special occasion wonder what would have been so bad about just making do with Chinese takeout. One type consists of men dressed all in black--a group the New York Press, a downtown weekly, has called the "Comme des Knuckleheads crowd...
Roiling beneath the surface of the ocean of numbers is the issue of race. Why do minorities score worse? Manuel Gomez, a member of the Latino Eligibility Task Force, says suburban kids can often afford pricey coaching services that many minorities can't. Moreover, immigrants like Le--and many of California's Latinos--often struggle on the verbal part...