Word: rising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Price Club embodies much that is unique about the United States: the search for value that represents our inherited Puritan ethic coupled with the perennial desire to rise to the top and live the best life that we can. Translated into late twentieth century talk, that means buying fancy stuff on sale. Enter Price Club. In the cavernous, cement-floored Club, one can find all manner of goods known to humanity. Here, one buys in bulk; you can't get a box of tissues, but you can get 12 tissue boxes for the price of 8. If you have...
...consequently have leisure time, which Loker is attempting to capitalize upon. This plan has an added benefit. Since each student can take fewer courses, the number of students in each class will decrease drastically. With this plan, not only will attendance at Loker social events boom, but Harvard will rise up once more in the U.S. News and World Report ratings...
...different bookstore that could offer lower prices but there isn't a set arrangement with other stores. They could send lists elsewhere as well to create competition. But inevitably other bookstores would confront the same issues as the Coop, faced with reorders and overstocks, and their prices too would rise...
...wasn't until I was assigned to Englewood that I saw how much social conditions contribute to the rise of crime," he says, describing the damaged streetlights, broken-down cars and multitude of abandoned properties that dot Englewood today...
...orange-haired, androgynous icon of the 1970s and '80s, singer-songwriter David Bowie proved himself one of rock's more adaptable creatures. Now 50, the creator of such best-selling albums as The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars has become the first entertainer of any stripe to "securitize" himself. Last month staid insurance companies turned into rock-bond groupies, excitedly buying up $55 million of so-called Bowie Bonds privately placed by Fahnestock & Co., a New York City investment firm...