Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Daredevil Spree...
Most Israelis took the announcement in stride, just as they have ignored the economic crisis all along. Despite the negative indicators, consumers have been on a massive spending spree, snapping up appliances, going on vacations abroad and buying automobiles at a rate almost twice that of last year. The reason for their nonchalance: a combination of official and homespun safeguards that insulates almost every citizen from the roller coaster of the national economy...
...color television set and an air conditioner. Today those products are commonplace. The number of families with cars has grown from 17% in 1970 to 62%; those with color TVs from 26% to 98.9%; those with air conditioners from 5.9% to 40%. Signs of a national shopping spree are everywhere. A new government survey of 65,000 families found that the most popular consumer purchases include video tape recorders ($700) and pianos...
...Tuesday trial, a Middlesex County Third District Judge also fined the student. Matthew J. Chamberlain of 25 Avon St. in Cambridge $40 to the cover the cost of the lights broken during his July 8 early morning spree...
...descendant of a distinguished New England family, Fuller was the fifth generation of his family to go to Harvard. He was expelled in 1914 for blowing his tuition and expense money on a spree for the members of a Broadway chorus line. He worked in a Canadian machinery factory, was invited back to Harvard, was expelled for a second time, served in the Navy during World War I and went on to study science at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. During the 1920s he spent five years in an alcoholic depression following the death of a four-year-old daughter...