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put heads in beds

put heads in beds  v. phr.— «The hotels in Jefferson County are largely driven by manufacturing.…People bring in temporary workers and there are the construction projects. We have a lot of work to do here to, as they say in the...

Aspenize

Aspenize  v.— «Great numbers of the newcomers object strenously to what is termed “the Aspenizing of Bisbee” and the effects of a tourist boom on a dirt-cheap economy that one city councilman estimates is 75 percent dependent...

pitch

pitch  n.— «It’s not enough that the average space between economy class seats (or “pitch,” as it’s known in industry parlance) has lost three inches since 1978. Trying to offer relief was Boeing, introducing its 787 Dreamliner with...

Goldilocks market

Goldilocks market  attrib.— «The bears scornfully call it the “Goldilocks market,” their way of sneering at the conventional wisdom that the economy will grow just right—not too fast, setting off inflation, and not too slow...

Goldilocks zone

Goldilocks zone  attrib.— «The economy seems to be getting into the Goldilocks zone of not- too-hot, not-too-cold.» —“Investors ride tech stocks higher” Boston Herald (Mass.) June 3, 2000. (source: Double-Tongued...

ecolonomics

ecolonomics  n.— «“The word ecolonomics, which he coined, is a combination of ecology and economics,” said Billings, and reflected Weaver’s philosophy that there cannot be a healthy economy without a healthy environment...

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