Word: borrowings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beautiful," he said, "totally renovated and as nice as any in the air." At the moment, argues Alan Taylor, an image consultant to 28 airlines, the shuttle lacks a sense of style. "In the Trump name there's a certain magic," he says. "This basic transportation product can borrow some of that luster, that halo of success...
...more dignified, but more relentless, about comparing himself with Kennedy, or at any rate comparing 1960 with 1988. Again and again, from the Democratic Convention on, he has told audiences, "Twenty-eight years ago, another son of Massachusetts and another son of Texas were our nominees . . ." Dukakis wants to borrow a small radiance of analogy. Ted Sorensen, the author of so many of Kennedy's speeches, including the Inaugural, is recycling the rhetoric for Dukakis. The Kennedy themes recur in Sorensen's Dukakis: "It's time to get the country moving again...
...sources close to the fashion firm of James Galanos also say Mrs. Reagan has continued to borrow dresses. "If it's something she needs to borrow, she does borrow, but otherwise she buys," said Pat Jones, an assistant to Galanos. Chris Blazakis, who worked closely with Galanos since 1982 and was executive vice president of Galanos Originals from 1983 until 1985, insists that Galanos had told him that Mrs. Reagan generally did not pay for dresses and that the only time she returned one was when she wanted it repaired. Blazakis, who left the Galanos firm on friendly terms...
...executive at Manhattan's Harry Winston jewelers confirms that Mrs. Reagan has continued to borrow expensive accessories, even though there had been some White House embarrassment in 1981 at disclosures that Winston had given her a | diamond necklace and diamond earrings for the first Inaugural Ball. At retail, the combination would be worth about $480,000. "At times Mrs. Reagan has borrowed items," this source says. "She has worn on other occasions -- but not in America -- a pair of diamond earrings that are $800,000 with ten-carat drops...
...trade deficit had soared," he said. "Republican policies of borrow and spend and borrow and spend had done the damage...