Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...little as $55 a year, consumers could twinkle in fellowship with such glitterati as Mikhail Baryshnikov, Ella Fitzgerald and Meryl Streep. All one had to do was wave one's little piece of green, gold or platinum plastic, and waiters and clerks would fawn prettily. Such potent snob appeal once seemed irresistible -- until American Express "cardmembers" began weighing the costs of privilege against the benefits of more plebeian credit cards. While the AmEx elite shelled out annual fees, Discover clients were issued free cards. Amex users had to pay their bills in full each month; savvy bank-card customers enjoyed...
...sounds like brutal, elemental capitalism, it is. But American Express's friendlier, market-dictated face won't appeal to consumers if they can't use the new cards when and where they want. In recent years, AmEx has been chucked out of establishments by owners who were no longer willing to pay an average fee of 3.2% per purchase (as compared with 2% for Visa and MasterCard). A chastened Amex has now chopped its vendor fee to 2.8%, and the ploy seems to be working. Since 1992, the company has moved boldly into / establishments regarded by consumers as plastic-essential...
...world's largest law firm, ordered to pay what may be the biggest award ever for a sexual harassment case, said it will appeal the jury's decision. A San Francisco Superior Court jury ruled yesterday that Baker & McKenzie had to pay Rena Weeks, a former secretary, $7.1 million. Weeks claimed that an attorney at the firm lunged at her breasts in the office and made sexually suggestive comments at a luncheon...
Only circumstance has protected the Guyanas, as the region is called, from the chain saws and bulldozers leveling forests elsewhere. Though colonized centuries ago by the British, Dutch and French, the area became known for its penal camps and slave rebellions and never had enough appeal to draw huge numbers of European settlers. Today the population of Suriname, Guyana and French Guiana totals only 1.3 million people, nearly all of whom live in coastal cities. Up to now the city dwellers have put little pressure on the forests or the few thousand indigenous Amerindians who live in the woodlands...
Like the thirtysomething characters, Angela is intensely analytical. Her appeal, in fact, is that she is so perceptive and articulate for her age. Yet at times the insights the writers attribute to her seem implausible. When faced with the chance to be alone with Jordan, she doesn't giggle or express vague fear but reasons that she may need the fantasy of her obsession more than the reality of him. "If you make it real," she says, "it's not yours anymore." That is an intriguing perception, but not one likely to be made by a girl who still cries...