Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That bloody spree prompted the Indians, whose peacekeeping force had grown to more than 20,000, to launch their all-out drive against the Tigers. With Jayewardene's blessing, the Indians began moving against Tiger hideouts in the east, killing three rebels and arresting 98. Next Gandhi's forces began the much more difficult job of rooting the Tigers out of the Jaffna Peninsula, their main stronghold. After securing control of most of the peninsula, the Indians advanced on Jaffna town behind artillery and air strikes...
...NOTEBOOK: Reilly made five saves, with Hawk goalie Mindru nabbing nine...Kramer continued his scoring spree, netting a goal for the fourth straight game to bring his season total to eight...Harvard hosts Ivy rival Princeton at Ohiri Field Saturday...
According to Harvard Police Chief Paul E. Johnson, the alarm-pulling spree was probably related to the Head of the Charles events, which drew spectators from across the country to the Cambridge area. "People drink, and they have a lot of visitors, and reports of alarms come in." Johnson said...
...Schreiber predicted that American multinational companies like IBM and ITT threatened to turn Western Europe into an economic province. Concern about foreign cash flowing into the U.S. arose briefly in the 1970s, when a weak U.S. dollar and the emerging clout of OPEC prompted fear of an Arab buying spree. By and large, however, the cautious oil sheiks steered their petrodollars into bank accounts and securities portfolios rather than toward the bricks and mortar of U.S. real estate and corporations...
Despite the shopping spree, however, the value of U.S. property under foreign control is still only a tiny fraction of America's immense total. (The & estimated value of all U.S. residential dwellings alone comes to some $6 trillion.) But foreign holdings have grown surprisingly large in many lucrative, and occasionally sensitive, spots. Foreign investors now own 46% of the commercial real estate in downtown Los Angeles, for example, according to a survey by the Coldwell Banker Real Estate Group. In downtown Houston, the foreign-owned tally is 39%; in Minneapolis 32%; and in Manhattan...