Word: sprees
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...iMac, but horribly treacly viewing, as CBS dragged the contestants' families in for a lifeline-style Outback trivia game to hand out the week's reward - which was neither food nor shelter but a half-hour "private chat" for Tina and her family. (And a $500 shopping spree, courtesy of the good folks at - well, I'm not telling. Take that, capitalist pigs.) Nothing like Internet-homesickness - set of course to a tinkling piano score - to make rugged survivalism cuter than a well-worn teddy bear. This is what we get for tuning in every week like Pavlovian dogs? Grown...
...example, they took this particular trip as a sightseeing spree, specifically for the sake of the visitors. And that practice will definitely stop. They also left behind a large part of the ship's crew. That sort of thing will also not happen again...
Back in the days when NASDAQ-made millionaires were multiplying like mold spores, Desai materialized as a boy-wonder benefactor. He went on a pledging spree, contacting four colleges out of the blue and promising them a total of more than $5 million. That was before the Internet bubble--not to mention Desai's career--burst. To date he has coughed up only...
...round of finger pointing after the Santana shooting spree, many of you felt that we in the news business share some of the blame for school violence. "Instant fame is one 'Columbine effect,' and TIME bestowed it on the shooters," wrote a Californian, who added, "You may inspire more killing." Echoing the point, a reader from Charlotte, N.C., declared, "A better headline for your cover would have been 'The Media Effect.' The relentless coverage of these tragedies provides a blueprint for every disillusioned kid in America to exact revenge." And a New York City reader urged us to "stop publishing...
...budget before considering tax relief. But Bush - whose Kalamazoo address was scheduled 10 days ago - is in danger of losing the initiative on his own brand of economic stimulus. Surely his experts have told him that $5.6 billion in 2001 for 200 million taxpayers does not a consumer spending spree make. So what's been the holdup...