Word: 80s
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...just the superrich who are spending like drunken sailors. According to Marquis Jet CEO Bill Allard, his clientele extends beyond athletes and entertainers. "We have people in their 20s up into their 80s. We have people who haven't necessarily built up their nest eggs, and then we've got billionaires," he says. "When you look at the growth in luxury brands, first you have to look at the economy, and obviously it has really revived over the last year. But there is a premium in terms of quality of life. People are saying 'I've worked hard...
...perfect global pop star, the result would be nothing like Daler Mehndi. There's his look?black beard, bejeweled turban and belly surfing over his waistband. There's his halting English, his insistence on singing in Punjabi and his tongue-tangling name, pronounced "Dlurr Maindy." Then there are his '80s-style videos, pulsing with primitive arcade-game effects and joyful dancers in jumpsuits. And yet in the late '90s, fresh from a stint driving a cab in Berkeley, California, Mehndi became Asia's biggest-ever pop export...
...Apparently, not completely, as revelations pouring out of Seoul this month have revealed. One centers around an idle TRIGA Mark III research reactor located in a dilapidated building in a residential suburb of Seoul. In the 1970s and '80s, the TRIGA Mark III was used by Korean nuclear scientists to test nuclear fuel and study isotopes. In April or May 1982, scientists took an irradiated test fuel rod from the reactor and placed it in one of the research installation's "hot cells," a room clad with lead to block radioactivity. Using robotic arms and peering through a leaded window...
Chou and Stroll have grown confident in their ability to predict changing consumer tastes and then to satisfy the new appetite. It sounds simple, but just how do you dress 100 million Americans? "Every generation of consumers has a specific taste," says Chou. "In the '80s it was Waspy, which is what Ralph Lauren delivered. Then in the '90s the urban and street look took off, and Tommy Hilfiger owned that. Today the consumer is swinging back. They want smart casual...
...PINOCHET, 88, Chilean President from 1973 to 1990; of immunity from prosecution, in a 9-8 vote by Chile's Supreme Court; in Santiago. The decision opens the way for a possible trial on charges of human-rights abuses for Pinochet's crackdown on dissidents in the 1970s and '80s in which at least 19 Chileans are believed to have died...