Word: discounter
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...rare forms of the elusive mullet. This excitable pair of Harvard frosh recently embarked on a pilgrimage of sorts, traversing the fertile mullet heartland between Washington D.C. and North Carolina. While on their quest, Malliaris and Hendry uncovered the fabled mother lode of mullets on the grounds of a discount store selling "tons of cigarettes...
...door of the Sew-Low Discount Fabric store hangs a sign that reads, "Part-time applications: Must speak English and Portuguese...
...across the U.S., enlisting the aid of big brokers like E.F. Hutton (now part of Citigroup) to line up prospects. The number of Names soared from about 6,000 in the mid-1960s to 14,000 in 1978 and exceeded 34,000 by the late 1980s. These were discount Names too, Lloyd's having lowered the net worth needed to become a Name to substantially below $1 million. The lower bar gave entry to investors such as Shirley Cook, a third-grade teacher from Texas, and Elizabeth Bencsics, the wife of an electrician in New Mexico, who lost big chunks...
...percent discount currently offered to all undergraduates after 9pm will be valid at Mamacita Taqueria as well...
Ultimately, of course, the battle for gay marriage has always been about more than winning the second-driver discount at the Avis counter. In fact, the individual who has done most to push same-sex marriage--a brilliant 43-year-old lawyer-activist named Evan Wolfson--doesn't even have a boyfriend. He and the others who brought the marriage lawsuits of the past decade want nothing less than full social equality, total validation--not just the right to inherit a mother-in-law's Cadillac. As Andrew Sullivan, the (also persistently single) intellectual force behind gay marriage, has written...