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...members of this newly defined species can best be spotted after 9 p.m. in gourmet groceries, their Burberry-clothed arms reaching for the arugula or a Le Menu frozen flounder dinner. In the parking lot, they slide into their BMWs and lift cellular phones to their ears before zooming off to their architect- designed houses in the exurbs. After warmly greeting Rover (often an akita or golden retriever), they check to be sure the pooch service has delivered his nutritionally correct dog food. Then they consult the phone-answering machine, pop dinner into the microwave and finally sink into their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Here Come the DINKs | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

Avon Rent-A-Car in Los Angeles offers customers some of the world's classiest autos, including Rolls-Royces, Porsches and BMWs. Naturally, the company also expects its clients to have some class and certainly to be above petty vandalism. But Avon President Stuart Silver reports that more than half of last year's 12,000 rentals came back without the rear license-plate frame. The frames have Avon Rent-a-Car printed on them, and Silver reasons that customers who shell out $350 a day for a Rolls-Royce Corniche convertible "want everybody to think it's their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTO RENTALS: They Do Leave The Radios | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...hamper the growth in the standard of living. "There's no question we will be poorer as a nation because of this, or rather we will get richer more slowly," said Feldstein. The trade-off is that even if Americans have to buy fewer Japanese videocassette recorders and German BMWs, a more modest dollar will prevent the U.S. from going disastrously into hock by the end of the decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stamina, Not Speed | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

...million. Local police are trying some innovative approaches. In Boston, New York City and Miami, they have begun confiscating the cars of well-off suburbanites who drive into the cities and get arrested while buying crack. The haul in New York since late July: 107 cars, including several BMWs and at least one Mercedes-Benz. And everywhere arrest totals are rising. Police in Florida nabbed 4,573 suspected cocaine sellers last year, more than double the number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle Strategies | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

Bond, who still has the boyish smile and laid-back cool that made him a celebrity in the '60s, is the glamour candidate. He is the clear favorite of the upwardly mobile young blacks, known as buppies, whose BMWs decorate the lot of his sprawling campaign headquarters. Cicely Tyson came down for a fund raiser, and so did the Temptations; Bill Cosby and Ted Kennedy have sent checks. Polished and witty, Bond has an air of bemused nonchalance; like a horse who shies from hurdles, he has backed away from seeking higher office or tougher challenges in the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Times Not Forgotten | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

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