Word: spree
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shock of the news sank in, Trinidadians went on a weekend looting spree that left Port-of-Spain's main shopping street a shambles. But the popular uprising that Bakr had counted on never came, and he and his men soon found themselves surrounded by troops and without food. On the fifth day Bakr agreed to release Robinson, 63, who had been shot in the leg and suffers from diabetes and glaucoma. Next day Bakr and his men freed the remaining hostages and gave themselves...
...Ninja Turtles and The Hunt for Red October -- each pulled in summer-worthy figures of well over $100 million. Disney's Pretty Woman, an airhead Cinderella comedy that speaks to every man's dream of buying a beautiful woman and every woman's fantasy of a Rodeo Drive shopping spree, is near $160 million and still going strong. It stands a good chance of becoming the first film since Blazing Saddles in 1974 to win the year's box-office race without having been released in the summer or Christmas seasons. "It's out of date," says Jeffrey Katzenberg, chairman...
...shopping spree had actually started months earlier. East Germans moved beyond the oranges and bananas, so popular when the Wall first came down, to consumer electronics and cars. Everywhere, new brand names began to beckon: Panasonic, Miele, Zanussi. Magdeburg became Marlboro country. The West German chain Spar opened a supermarket 40 km east of the border and stocked it with Western goods. East Berlin got its Benetton...
...empire lay under siege last week, staggering beneath the burden of debt Trump has accumulated in his insatiable buying spree of the past few years. The Grand Acquisitor never seemed to notice that the Roaring Eighties had ended until suddenly his cash started running out. So far, Trump has not missed any payments on his estimated $3 billion in loans and junk bonds. But his lenders and suppliers have begun to fear that Trump's domain is an overleveraged structure built on swagger and bluff. His creditors have suddenly demanded proof of his financial prowess, and he is coming...
...increasingly crowded market and thus must be aggressive to survive. In any case, it is hard to quarrel with the results. As the family fortune has soared, the magazine and book divisions have contributed their share. Random House, bought for $70 million in 1980, went on a spree of acquisition and expansion into the global market and is deemed by financial analysts to be worth perhaps $1.5 billion today. The magazines have generally prospered, even in a declining ad market, despite the fact that several of them compete for the same young and fashionable female readers. Newhouse plainly believes there...