Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other times and other places, at least one good thing could be said about inflation. It usually brought more pleasures than immediate problems. Prices rose, but paychecks and profits scooted up even faster. Few people could resist the urge to go on a buying spree to stock up on clothes, cars and all sorts of consumer goods in order to beat the next price hike. Daring entrepreneurs became instant millionaires; even penny-ante plungers built up neat nest eggs in the stock market. Inevitably, an exhilarating boom faded into sobering recession. But the letdown was usually short and sharp, followed...
...found in the second edition that they have picked up the story that we have dropped and dropped the story that we have picked up. It's fantastic." On a recent day, Today's first edition front-paged HUNT TWO IN SUBURBAN CRIME SPREE, while the Daily News ran the story for a paltry six paragraphs on page 5. By the time the third edition appeared, the Daily News story was front-paged at three times the original length, while Today had shortened its earlier screamer and dropped it back to page...
...immediate peril is that a big rush from dollars into stronger currencies or gold could easily set off still another monetary crisis, one which would make Europe's brief speculative spree last May seem mild by comparison. Already there are enough dollars circulating in the Eurodollar market to empty out Fort Knox several times over. The deeper danger is that European governments will clamp stern controls on the international exchange of money-particularly on the inflow of dollars-and that the U.S. will put equally rigid controls on the import of goods. In Washington, there is much discussion...
...ECONOMY The Consumer Holds Tight The odds are growing against a consumer buying spree, which President Nixon had hoped would spur the nation's dawdling economy. Despite some tantalizing flashes of free-spending ebullience, the public's mood remains generally cautious, its purchasing habits basically frugal and its saving instinct surprisingly strong...
...banquette in a quiet bistro. Largely because of this candelabracadabra, candles continued to sell at a respectable pace long after the rural-electrification program brought light bulbs into the most remote corners of the U.S. In recent months, however, Americans have gone on a candle-buying spree, spurred on by necessity, a changing national mood and by new candle shops stocked with imaginatively shaped and scented products...