Word: thrifts
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...need to win the hearts and minds of Afghanistan's children with more than food and blankets. I suggest that the kids of America purchase dolls and other toys from thrift stores or gather their discarded G.I. Joes and Barbies and take them to the nearest military base. From there the toys could be shipped across the ocean and distributed to needy Afghan kids. This gesture, in a spirit of hope for a lasting peaceful relationship, with no strings attached, would help the people of that devastated land know that somebody cares. BOB RICHARD San Diego...
...many ways, our panelists agree, the economy is healthier today than it was 11 years ago. Real oil prices and inflation are lower. There's no thrift crisis to stymie lending and no budget deficit to discourage policymakers from stimulating demand. Unless there is another catastrophe, our economists believe, economic growth and employment should begin to recover in the first half of 2002, with more robust growth in the latter part of the year...
That sort of thrift would have been applauded during World War II, when the Federal Government imposed rationing of food, gasoline and tires. But now Washington is doing all it can to get consumers to open their wallets. The Federal Reserve Board slashed short-term interest rates half a point, its eighth cut this year, and the Bush Administration signed a $40 billion stimulus package to help with the recovery effort and the fight against terrorism...
...gave us. Musical taste became our primary means of distinguishing ourselves from one another. In college most indie-rock kids respected hip-hop, and most hip-hop kids respected indie rock, but there was rarely any question as to who was hip-hop (baggy clothes) and who was indie (thrift-store clothes). The two groups tended to keep to themselves...
...retirement package seems a tad overgenerous for a CEO who, by some reckonings, may have weakened the company. If you criticize welfare mothers for irresponsibility and laziness and immorality, on the other hand, you are not waging class warfare; you are simply trying to uphold the American virtues of thrift and ambition...