Word: unload
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...merchandisers themselves may have to pay for rapacity. "I am no economist, but it is obvious to me that if the West merely treats East Germany as a market to unload goods, there will come a collapse that will drive down the deutsche mark, and they will pay," says Ingrid Stahmer, West Berlin's deputy mayor in charge of housing and social services. "There has to be investment. We must put money in, not just take...
Cerullo won out because the new bankruptcy trustee, Dennis Shedd, preferred to unload all the PTL remains as a unit. Roberts wanted only the TV network, while Cerullo was willing to offer a total of $52 million for all of Bakker's former empire. There were five other eleventh-hour bidders, including a secular TV-ad broker who offered $8.35 million for the cable operation. But Cerullo is the rightful heir, his lawyer pleaded, because "the men and women who created that partnership were Christians." A court hearing on the non-TV transaction will be held next month...
...cities like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles that are suffering a meltdown. During the busiest periods, paramedics talk of "medical gridlock." They cannot even unload their ambulances because the emergency room is full, and the emergency room cannot open because every last bed in the hospital is taken. At this point the hospital may go on "bypass" and ask that ambulances be sent elsewhere. But many hospitals that used to go on bypass once or twice a year now do so every week. In California emergency rooms open and shut like tollgates depending on the traffic. Because surgeons were...
...nightmares. For him, selling is more than a job and less than an honorable passion; it is not unlike date rape, against which neither resistance nor entreaty is an effective countermeasure. In Cadillac Man, he is discovered pulling up to a stalled funeral procession, to see if he can unload a replacement hearse on the desperate undertaker. While he's at it, he takes a shot at selling the bereaved widow one of his luxury cars, coyly suggesting it might be a nice memorial to her late, apparently generous husband...
...legs on the backs of her highheels while they put bills in her g-string and made chit-chat. Phoenix laughed and nodded, occasionally making a small hand gesture, but their voices were inaudible from our table. Then she would dance off again, pausing by the speakers to unload her g-string tips. Unlike most of the dancers who had mascaraed eyes and sun-bed glossy skin, Phoenix was slender and pale. I worried about her tendons, wincing when she threw her head towards her knees, snapping into the full rear-view stance...