Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drop types tend to draw more scorn than sympathy. Visions of Imelda Marcos and 2,400 pairs of shoes dance in people's heads. But therapists insist that compulsive shopping can be as ruinous as gambling, disrupting families and plunging sufferers into debt. Many people enjoy the occasional spree, but shopaholics' lives are consumed by buying. Says psychologist Georgia Witkin of New York City, author of a recently published book on compulsive behavior, Quick Fixes & Small Comforts (Villard; $17.95): "The day shapes up around getting to stores...
...been kind of confused about your own Christmas spree...
Brown goaltender Chris Harvey knows about Harvard's scoring strength. He did not have a fun evening. Harvey batted away 49 shots in the game, but even that rather large total won't salvage his save percentage after the Crimson scoring spree...
Yale failed on both accounts. The Elis allowed Harvard to snare a 3-0 lead in the first period and score both the late-game goals. Princeton kept it close--Harvard led, 6-5, heading into the final period--but let the Crimson go on a three-goal scoring spree in the third for a 9-5 Crimson victory last Saturday...
...Bush's strategists to brand Michael Dukakis a gooey liberal out of touch with mainstream values, none worked better than the relentless pounding of Horton's horrible tale. By the end of the campaign, scarcely a voter had not been exposed to the lurid details of the rapacious spree Horton committed while on weekend furlough from the Massachusetts prison to which he had been sentenced to life without parole for a brutal 1974 homicide...