Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lyman Bullard continued his amazing scoring spree as he netted both Crimson goals in the booters' 2-1 triumph over Williams at the Business School field yesterday...
Liberal economists challenge the view of Greenspan and other Government policymakers that the current inflation is basically the inevitable hangover from years of excess demand brought on by a federal spending spree, huge budget deficits and easy money. Walter Heller contends that the real trouble is a "one-shot" explosion in food, fuel and raw-commodity prices. Food and fuel accounted for about half the 11.8% rise in the consumer price index in the twelve months through July. The great danger, Heller believes, is that labor will demand huge wage increases to catch up with food and fuel prices...
...Building Spree. As Governor, he hit the ground running. He expanded the state university from 38,000 students on 41 campuses to 244,000 on 72 campuses-his proudest achievement. He added 50 state parks, 100,000 new housing units, 109 hospitals and nursing homes, 200 water treatment plants and three model communities. Highways were built, the Governor estimated, at the rate of 4% miles a day. Very little that he wanted built did not get built. He was wisely rebuffed when, in the urgent atmosphere of the early 1960s, he proposed state-supported fallout shelters for every home...
...about enjoying himself. A day's shooting on a nearby game preserve bagged 40 quail, and an ocean fishing trip in the Atlantic made His Majesty the possessor of a mighty fish: a 130-lb. grouper. A visit to Disney World followed, and finally the mandatory shopping spree, which last year required a special plane to take home the goodies. Asked why Palm Beach had become a popular Hussein holiday spot, Kimberly replied succinctly: "He feels safe here...
...Then last week came a Connecticut Supreme Court challenge to Mory's, the all-male New Haven drinking club, which must now fight to maintain its private-club status in order to continue refusing to admit women (a policy since 1886). The "gentlemen songsters off on a spree" proclaimed in Yale's Whiffenpoof Song may be presented with the uncomfortable choice of finding a watering hole other than Mory's or being joined by lady listeners. If that weren't enough, the New York City Health Department after diligent inspection listed the mid-Manhattan Yale Club...