Banana Republic's sales were down 3 percent from those a year ago.
The District has never seemed more like a banana republic than in the past few weeks.
The fact is that in recent years many states have been run like banana republics.
Every few years, they have a revolution in one of the banana republics.
Is it just another banana republic or something more sophisticated?
This just in: California has officially become a banana republic.
"We are acting like a banana republic," said one woman.
This country is turning into a banana republic, without the bananas.
Just the way of this banana republic, Gifford had said once.
And that really makes Russia look like a banana republic.
