Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thrill Kills" in Pittsburgh. Michael Travaglia and John Lesko, both white and 22, have pleaded guilty to murder and face death sentences, but they show no remorse. In a five-day spree they kidnaped Peter Levato, 49, an unemployed security guard, in downtown Pittsburgh, attempted to drown him in the Loyalhanna creek, then shot him fatally. Next they abducted Marlene Sue Newcomer, 26, and shot her to death in their van; her body and the abandoned vehicle were found in a Pittsburgh parking garage...
...President is also taking a long chance that the deep tax cuts he wants will prompt savings, investment and hard work, and thus healthy economic growth. They could instead deepen deficits, lead to a consumer buying spree, or both; either would make inflation worse...
...night. The President will announce sharp slashes in federal spending, as much as $50 billion in the next fiscal year, and deep reductions in taxes. He anticipated angry howls, but also the backing of a majority of Americans, who seem to agree that the Government must stop its spending spree. Said liberal Republican Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island: "We've run out of alternatives...
...Milton Friedman. Begin gave Israelis, for the first time, the right to hold up to $3,000 in foreign currency. In his first budget, he increased spending in the already swollen public sector and, most damaging of all, provided greatly expanded credit to exporters. Israelis went on a buying spree, gleefully snapping up imported luxury items with their newly acquired dollars. The result: an inflation rate that was already an ominous 39% when Begin took office shot up to a rate that, if not stemmed soon, could rise to a staggering...
...IGNITED the selling spree, Joseph Ensign Granville, appears something of a crackpot. The 57-year-old son of a Yonkers market player who lost it all in the last big crash, Granville ran an investment advice service for those who dealt in postage stamps during the 1950s. He moved up to play with the big boys in the '60s, working for E.F. Hutton until his brash unorthodoxy began to clash with the fundamentalist corporate ethic of the firm...