Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more mundane level, France's political malaise has had direct economic consequences. At the moment, France is seized by a giant buying spree. Fearing an eventual devaluation of the franc, Frenchmen are sinking their savings into goods. Two months ago, there were 10,000 color-television sets in all of France; now there are 70,000. Washing machines, record players and other appliances are being snapped up at a similar pace. Peugeot is receiving 500 orders a day for its most expensive ($3,000) model, the new 504, even though it can produce only...
...course, consumers had plenty of pocket money. Often during the 1960s, they have confounded economic forecasters by spending more lavishly than the experts had expected. This year, they went on something of a spree, correctly sensing that the prices of almost all goods and services were bound to rise. Such expectations become powerful economic forces, creating an inflationary psychology that is now firmly embedded in the thinking of businessmen, labor leaders and investors. Even after the tax increase, consumers rushed to buy practically everything. Their appetite for the well-styled 1969 autos was particularly keen; sales this year will reach...
With fifteen minutes remaining in the game, State held a 13 point lead, due mainly to the efforts of junior center Dave Sorensen and a series of damaging Harvard errors. Then Dover put on a personal scoring spree which cut the margin to four, 11 minutes from...
...second period action went back and forth in the first few minutes while both goalies were making great saves. A Harvard penalty at 4:26 started the B.U. offense on a spree which ended in a goal at 7:35 after a barrage of shots on Durno...
...slashing like scythes, he was collecting an average of 18 rebounds a game. Trading on his fadeaway jump shot, and a rim-rattling dunker, he recently turned in the top N.B.A. individual performance so far this season: 54 points against the Detroit Pistons. Last week, with a 147-point spree in four games, Elvin became the league's highest scorer...