Word: spoil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...occasional appearances on Moscow TV, Strauss talks up his idea of helping the Russians open a dozen or so small sausage shops to demonstrate the principle that if perishable items don't sell at their first price, the price must be progressively lowered so they will sell before they spoil. "I think we can help move prices down a bit," Strauss says, noting that most food stores today are still state owned. He has enlisted the support of Georgi Matyukhin, head of the central bank, is in touch with a potential supplier of Russian-made sausage and is trying...
...mess is not slimy. It's whimsical. It's creative. It's the kind of mess we remember from childhood. We have no gnawed pizza crusts from three weeks ago, no half-filled cans of warm Coke. These are only toys; they don't smell and they don't spoil. Perhaps the Play-Doh could dry out and get stale, but we're careful to close the lids tightly. We are very sanitary with our mess...
...Saints two road defeats knocked them out of contention for the conference title, but that doesn't mean they won't try to spoil Harvard's hopes...
...there because we know when they come to Miami it's going to be no problem," defensive lineman Anthony Hamlet said. "We're going to beat them anyway up there, but it's just the fact that we're going to their field and we're going to spoil their dreams of a winning a national championship...
...speculation that OMON units are really taking orders from Communist Party hard-liners and secret conservative groups in the Baltics. When Black Berets seized the Lithuanian telephone exchange in early July, cutting off external communications for more than two hours, Gorbachev's spokesman suggested that "someone was trying to spoil" the Soviet President's visit to London for the G-7 summit. Accepting responsibility, Makutinovich said the operation was aimed at the confiscation of illegally held weapons. In a sign of official displeasure, the major was promptly summoned to Moscow for a conference with his superiors...