Word: rags
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Serious policy lost out to the rag trade. Over-spending brought the country budget deficits and an unemployment rate proportionately higher than that of the United States. A series of disastrous budgets in recent years demonstrated his party's inability to adapt the economic thinking of the past decade to the current one. For fiscal reasons alone. Trudeau would not have won reelection...
...knocker, say I'm sick. I'm dead. I've got a People magazine so fat With reminiscent slush and self-congrat That I could barely lift it off the stoop. (Not from my door--I stole it off the some dupe) It seems this month the rag is ten years old; Too bad. I hoped that they were soon to fold. Their editer says their style is really new; They feature People, not people like...
...proved to be an encouraging way to finish off an otherwise depressing weekend Harvard came out on the short end of a disappointing 59-57 come-from-behind Penn victory Friday night, and the hoopsters opened sloppily on Saturday. Although Princeton committed 30 turnovers. Harvard still looked a bit rag-bag as it coughed up the bell 21 times...
Only 1000 copies of the spring semester booklet have been printed, and a $3 a copy, Wilcox said he expects them to sell more briskly. Because it is printed on rag paper, Wilcox explained, overhead was lower, making the booklet "an ephemeral document at best...
...What do you do with a gazebo?" Bright bars of sunlight lay on the rag rugs and the pine floors, and a shaft of the stuff glinted off the Wolfs' decanter collection and their cut-glass saltcellar collection (here a discerning eye might see that a couple of the spoons came from a head shop in Hollywood). The house held dried ferns, wicker furniture, an odd assortment of rocking chairs, a hand-turned oak banister, framed advertisements from long ago, framed pictures of flowers from National Geographies of the 1920s-phlox, gentian, evening primrose, wintergreen, bird's-foot...