Word: sprees
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What followed was a spending spree -but one plotted with care. Tyonek Business Manager Seraphim Stephan Sr. took a course in tribal-business administration in New Mexico. An outside accounting firm was hired. Carefully investing their fortune, the Indians bought into the Anchorage construction firm that built their new homes, are acquiring an interest in an air-taxi service whose owner flew countless mercy missions for them before prosperity struck...
...industry has been hit with everything but a ten-ton truck. To battle inflation, Lyndon Johnson has told consumers that it is patriotic to be parsimonious, and a lot of people are willing to heed him. When inflation winds blow, U.S. consumers do not go on a buying spree but instead forgo big, postponable purchases-such as cars-to save their declining dollars for necessities. On top of that, 250,000 potential buyers have been shipped to Viet Nam, and Stateside draftees and 1A civilians get 4F ratings from finance companies...
When the President complained about the congressional spending spree to Everett Dirksen, the Senate minority leader gave him some blunt advice: "You've lectured the business commu nity, you've lectured the grocers, and you've lectured the housewives. You've lectured everyone but the right crowd -the members of your own party...
...while, the Mounties said, Gerda was "very actively engaged as a common prostitute" in Montreal and, as such, associated with members of Montreal's underworld. When Gerda's citizenship was finally turned down, she returned to West Germany. But before leaving she went on a buying spree, scattering rubber checks all over Montreal. When they bounced her into jail, Gerda threatened the cops with Sevigny's name, and was free the next...
...mouths. Occasionally, they seem to be speaking less for themselves than for a troubled generation in toto. But Director Michael Winner masks the deficiency, coolly catching the feverish, gotta-keep-busy restlessness of youth on the go. Wherever the action is, from ballroom to boardwalk to a beachside spree in which a bride-and-groom are burned in effigy. Winner gives a commanding end-of-summer air to every moment...