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...free and risk-free, pay off your Visa) . . . buy their cars for cash (yes, it's legal to pay off a car loan; no, leasing's not generally a good idea) . . . stock up on "the economy size" when items are on sale (an "investment" in sale-priced soda, socks and soap can stretch $1,000 to buy $1,400 worth of the same stuff you'd have bought anyway -- a 40% tax-free return) . . . and stash away at least a few thousand dollars someplace liquid and safe. Like a bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: How to Invest In a Clinton Win | 11/2/1992 | See Source »

With such sparing, honest music, Avalon seemed inappropriate. The flashy lights and disco balls were too gaudy for a band which thrives on simplicity. With ads for WFNX and the Phoenix hanging every few feet, the band often looked like they were playing in a soda commercial...

Author: By Michael K. Mayo, | Title: Buffalo Tom: Moshing with the Middle-Aged Crowd | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

Throughout the ceremony messages and slides were flashed onstage, including one memorable shot of a woman examining a man's armpit and a quote attributed to a so-called Professor Bruno Klondhauer: "I like my soda flat, like my women." Klondhauer is credited by the Journal with inventing Kelvin, the official fragrance of the ceremony...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ig Nobels Awarded at MIT | 10/2/1992 | See Source »

...figured the crowd had little to do with hurricane paranoia (it would probably change its path, right?), and I made only a limited purchase of lettuce, cookies and soda--passing over the canned goods, bottled water and batteries I should have bought...

Author: By Mary E. Rocha, | Title: Surviving Andrew | 9/18/1992 | See Source »

...another mechanism capable of inducing fracture has been suggested by the Landers earthquake. Because the quake triggered scores of sympathetic vibrations in volcanic and geothermal regions, some scientists have speculated that the Landers event shook underground magma chambers as though they were big cans of soda. The gas that fizzed forth could, in turn, have forced open a gap that eased the slip of surrounding rock. Whatever the mechanism, experts agree, it has only hastened the fracture of a fault zone that was already stressed up and ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News From the Underground | 8/24/1992 | See Source »

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