Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Americans will spend an estimated $1 billion on surfwear this year; many of the buyers are beach potatoes who are nonetheless attracted to the images of eternal youth and endless summers. "Surfing is a metaphor for a style of living," says Surfer Magazine Publisher Steve Pezman. "Therein lies the appeal of the surf fashion...
...Orange Riviera's basic appeal is still its natural assets: gorgeous beaches, wooded hills, balmy climate. Real Estate Investor Leo Gugasian hardly needs to explain his fondness for the area: his office is aboard his three- bedroom yacht. Says he: "The salt air and relaxed pace make me think better." Another amenity: a lower rate of serious crime, 37% below Los Angeles' last year...
Steven, considered mild-mannered around Naples, where the freshly widowed Margaret Benson had moved from Lancaster, Pa., in 1980, wept twice during the trial. When the verdict was pronounced, he sat in choked silence. The defense planned to appeal...
...distortions and lies" in order to disguise an illegal U.S. policy of aggression. Walters countered, "Is it a lie that the Sandinistas have sought to destroy the democratic labor movement? Is it a lie that the Sandinistas have sought to crush Nicaragua's private sector?" Within moments, Ortega's appeal was forgotten, and the winds of war began to stir once more...
Straight out of Harvard Law School in 1981, Robert Jason accepted a $33,000 starting salary at O'Melveny & Myers, a Los Angeles-based firm with some 375 lawyers in offices on both coasts. Large firms appeal to clients in part by offering them expertise in minute and sometimes arcane legal specialties. Jason found himself assigned to municipal-bond tax law. "A total dead end," he now moans. Even worse, he maintains, at a large firm "associates do the absolute dregs of the work-- six months at a time in a warehouse looking through documents." Following an increasingly well-worn...