Word: unbought
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...Those small decisions - the motorcycles and new clothes left unbought - add up for retailers. Ombati and Rajinder Singh run a grocery store in Barola, another village in Uttar Pradesh, and their customers are mostly farmers. "People are not buying in bulk anymore. They come and buy things in limited quantities," Ombati says. That change has reduced their daily earnings from Rs. 2000 ($42) to Rs. 600 ($12.50). "In a drought, where is the money to buy things?" (See pictures of the deadly 2007 monsoon floods...
...from the history of its creation to its later influence on pretty much all of Western literature. However, absent was the deep spiritual and emotional connection with the good book that I had heard so much about from televangelists, Mel Gibson and the blurb on the back of my unbought Teen Bible at Wal-Mart. As fate would have it, an acquaintance, Caleb L. Weatherl ’10, the Vice President of the Harvard Republican Club, was door-knocking in my dorm for new members. When he asked me to join, I respectfully declined, being liberal-leaning in most...
DIED. SHIRLEY CHISHOLM, 80, trailblazing Congresswoman and candidate for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination; in Ormond Beach, Fla. The first black woman to sit in Congress, she championed such concerns of her underprivileged Brooklyn constituency as day-care funding and minimum wages for domestic workers. Describing herself as "unbought and unbossed," she criticized Congress as being run by "a small group of old men" and protested the "petrified" seniority system that initially placed her on the Agriculture Committee...