Word: bargain
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...lantern design. When filled to the brim with lawn rakings, the 260-gal. monsters seem large enough to devour a small child. A creation of Connecticut-based Sun Hill Industries, the Stuff-A-Pumpkin (retail price: $3.98) is flying off the shelves of K mart, Wal-Mart and other bargain behemoths, suddenly making the childhood chore of leaf raking such a cool job that even Bart Simpson might volunteer...
...neighborhoods. In most places there is no new construction. Office rents are plunging, and vacancy and delinquency rates are soaring. Overleveraged developers are being forced to refinance their loans and offer sweetheart deals to prospective tenants -- free rent for a year, say, with an exercise room thrown into the bargain. Declares Richard Peiser, director of the Lusk Center for Real Estate Development at the University of Southern California: "We are going through the greatest restructuring of the real estate industry in this century...
...just 400. A new Singapore press law requiring foreign publications to be licensed annually and to post a deposit against legal judgments makes clear that "what the government of Singapore wants is for the foreign press to practice self-censorship," the editorial continued. "We cannot accept the implicit bargain." With that, the newspaper announced that it would no longer sell any copies in Singapore...
...anything but . . . depressing. There was no need to worry. This fourth, and presumably final, installment of the life and times of Harold C. Angstrom -- Rabbit Run (1960), Rabbit Redux (1971), Rabbit Is Rich (1981) -- is far more upbeat than its subject matter would seem to warrant. And in the bargain it manages to be both poignant and excruciatingly funny...
Saddam's threat last week to fire the first shot -- and to target Israel in the bargain -- convinced Jerusalem that a showdown may come in a matter of weeks. In fact, an Israeli intelligence evaluation concluded that war was "highly probable" and warned that Israel would probably be dragged into the conflict...