Word: compounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...advertisements, we cannot begin to call for--or offer--free speech because we do not offer equal access; only those who have money can afford to use our advertisement pages as a medium. And, to compound this inequity, we, as the producers of our advertising, attempt to charge the highest prices possible in order to bring in the 'best' revenue--profits that reflect our own self-interest. Clearly, advertising cannot be included in the ideological notion of a "free press...
...clean work, without a single gunshot," said Rene Hernandez, a spokesperson for the federal attorney general. He said the reputed drug lord was flown to Mexico City and was being questioned at a heavily guarded compound...
Most telemarketing crooks insist on payment by credit card. Reason: the vouchers can be cashed in at banks before the buyers have second thoughts. Moreover, purloined credit-card numbers enable con artists to compound the crime -- for example, by charging victims several times for the products they purchase over the phone. By the time the consumers receive a bill, the thieves have disappeared, often without shipping any products...
Divisions among Israelis compound Shamir's difficulties. At the start of the three-day meeting in Jerusalem, stories in Israeli newspapers described a new intelligence analysis contending that the intifadeh -- the popular uprising by Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank -- could not be suppressed by force. Only political measures, including talks with the P.L.O., would lead to a solution...
...Inheriting Dow Jones stock now worth $150 million, recalls Christopher Bancroft, was like winning an elephant in a raffle: "I didn't know what the hell to do with it." Laura, a fourth-generation Rockefeller whose maiden name is hidden behind two marriages, remembers her family's vast compound as a "verdant cage." A psychiatric social worker, she happily gives away her inherited income to favorite causes like the Children's Defense Fund...