Word: refering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...midst of foreclosure. Retail sales growth has slumped from the peak years of the 1970s, when profits grew at an annual rate of more than 15%. Owners of chic boutiques and eateries gripe that business is significantly down from last season. The "Silver Queen," as residents fondly refer to their town, even looks a bit bedraggled. Compared with accommodations in Vail, which now attracts more business, Aspen's once premier lodges seem cramped and aging. Says Boutique Owner Rita St. John: "People are paying $200 a night and getting a dump." There is no first-class resort hotel. Zoning...
...wealthy victims were not in Marbella last week; others preferred to wait to talk to the police until after the mob of Spanish journalists who had swarmed to the resort had disappeared. In addition, some of the money that had been taken might have been what the Spanish refer to as "black money," undeclared income that its owners would just as soon not mention to the authorities...
...question of supporting it. The Congress has made the Fed absolutely autonomous. All you can do is advance opinions. You can talk to them and say, "Why are we down here in a time of reces sion, holding the money supply down so far?" I can't refer to it as saying it brought on the recession, because we had this recession coming on since 1979. You have only to look at the statistics of 1980 to know that was a recession. In fact, I at one time called it a depression. Everyone wanted to scold...
...refer, of course, to the continuing debate over whether meetings of the Standing Committee should be open or closed. As representative to the Committee on College Life. I voted to keep the meetings closed, feeling that this would facilitate freer discussion and make the meetings more productive. All but two of the members presents were agreed in this opinion. Since that time, the question has been discussed again and again, and the same points brought up every time...
Other tree growers note a spirit of healthy camaraderie among the purveyors of pines Pat Rischer, who sells trees from a lot on Raymond's Turkey Farm in Methuen says that other tree sellers refer customers to her when their supplies are exhausted. Rischer and her husband Jim operate their tree business out of the Raymonds' store, where customers can select from a wide variety of freshly killed turkey products. The Rischers started selling trees six years ago. "It's an enjoyable thing," she says. "You know, you get your saw and cut your tree down I know our family...