Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After nearly two decades of living on the relatively modest salary of a law professor and civil servant, Robert Bork went on a spending spree in 1981. Flush with the promise of a partnership worth $400,000 annually in the Washington office of the firm of Kirkland & Ellis, Bork purchased a new BMW sedan and a $500,000 house in the District's fashionable Kent neighborhood. The day he moved into his new home, however, Attorney General William French Smith made him an offer he could not refuse: a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District...
...past 15 years, petrodollar- rich gulf states have provided a lucrative market for a vast array of Western products. Europe's export-dependent defense industries in particular have enjoyed a multibillion-dollar bonanza in the region. Although declining oil revenues in recent years have slowed the spending spree, the gulf remains an important market for West European and Japanese exporters. Last year British sales to the region were worth more than $8 billion, while French exports, excluding arms, brought in around $3 billion. The Japanese sold $6.8 billion in the region...
...station bombing followed a killing spree that left at least 285 dead in six days. The carnage began over the weekend when Tamil rebels ambushed holiday travelers on a jungle road in Trincomalee district, gunning down 127 and injuring scores of others, including women and children. Almost all were Sinhalese. Three days later, Tamils fleeing a manhunt for the Trincomalee killers burst into homes in nearby Wanela, tied up 15 inhabitants and shot them dead...
...statement was intended to calm foreign-exchange markets, but it had exactly the opposite effect. After the latest Washington communique, a wild , selling spree pushed the value of the dollar down at week's end to 142.50 yen, a 40-year low against the Japanese currency. Indeed, after the Paris declaration failed to halt the dollar's slide, there was no reason to believe a vague reiteration of the same policy would have much impact...
...senior guard spearheaded a 75 percent second-half field goal spree by the Quakers that turned a two-point Harvard halftime advantage into a 20 point Penn rout midway through the second frame...