Word: affluents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stages of Economic Growth, a do-it-yourself guide to economic development that is gospel for many leaders of underdeveloped lands. These newly arrived politicians are also avid readers of Harvard's John Kenneth Galbraith, whose criticism of high consumer spending and low public spending in The Affluent Society provided many of them with an apologia for their planning programs...
...sales slipped 2.3% last year, to $5.2 billion. "Image" means much in the supermarket business, and A. & P.'s image sometimes looks old. It appeals to shoppers who fondly remember A. & P. for the bargains it offered during the Depression days. But it has less attraction for the affluent 25-to-40 age group, which buys half of the nation's groceries. To tempt this younger crowd, A. & P; belatedly started distributing Plaid Stamps in more than half of its stores. But that forced the com pany into a 2% price rise, which only irritated the longstanding, economy...
...reason for the spiral is that increasingly affluent Americans, who accounted for more than half of last year's sales, are calling for more and more diamonds. Four-fifths of the U.S. purchases are for engagement rings, the most popular type being stones of about one-half carat that retail for about $250. Styles are shifting: the pear shape and emerald cut are fading in popularity, but sales of the marquise and brilliant cut are sparkling. New York is the richest market (20% to 25% of all U.S. sales), followed by Chicago, Texas and Southern California. Surprisingly, many Americans...
...American novelist felt obliged to take in Valley Forge, the winning of the West, the Civil War and reconstruction, populism, World Wars I and II, and the Affluent Society. Nobody does this; the political novel (apart from the quickie or ad hoc novel like Fail-Safe) has been abandoned by U.S. writers along with the family saga...
...equally determined and even more affluent collection of U.S. yachtsmen will have spent at least twice as much to keep the coveted trophy right where...