Word: succumbs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...storefront may be garish, the prices high, the door always locked ("We're washing the floor") for just that half hour at dawn when you succumb to the temptation to walk over. Still, almost in spite of itself, Store 24 has managed to become something of a cult phenomenon in its nine years in the Square. About three-quarters of the 1800 people who pass through in a day are regulars, Higgins estimates--commuters stopping in before or after work, Harvard staff or faculty buying lunch, students buying everything under...
...know what it is to succumb to an insurmountable day mare-a whoresome lethargy-an indisposition to do anything-a total deadness and distaste-a suspension of vitality-an indifference to locality-a numb soporifical goodfornothingness-an ossification all over-an oyster-like insensibility to the passing events-a mind stupor-a brawny defiance to the needles of a thrusting-in conscience...
...obvious reason why businesses succumb when the economy suddenly, and unexpectedly, jumps up is that firms get caught off guard or are unable to adjust to the changed circumstances. During business booms, companies often are unable to raise prices fast enough to offset increased costs. The result is a crippling cash squeeze that can drive a firm into insolvency. Another way of saying it all, of course, is one of the eternal and lasting verities of the capitalist system: risk-taking involves risks...
...Owner George Steinbrenner returned the national pastime to normal: he fired his manager. Steinbrenner changes managers about as often as most fans change underwear, though he does it with more anguish and bigger headlines. The latest victim was Gene Michael, the eighth Yankee manager in as many years to succumb to Steinbrenner's peculiar style of baseball by psychodrama...
...never been quite sure who that Brian Jones character was are proud to be Rolling Stones fans again. All of this is fine; better to have Jagger and Richards on the radio than Journey and REO Speedwagon. But Tattoo You and the Stones' apparent determination to play until they succumb to shuffleboard and bingo has some dedicated followers worried...