Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These, in turn, are represented by the requisite Shepard blatant symbolism: a giant mobile of model warplanes, an ominous yellow-green moon on the backdrop, rifles, a deer carcass, an American flag, and lots of people wearing plaid flannel shirts, Levi's button-fly jeans, and shitkickers...
...cost my company $287?' Well, yeah, it did." Imagine what it costs when some jerk gets you on the phone and spends 45 minutes networking! "You've been taught that it's rude to hang up on someone," Baker advises. "So wait till you're talking, then push the button...
...apparently made some mighty miscalculations of its own. Analysts say its fall colors, weighted heavily toward gray, beige and olive, were too drab for many shoppers. The chain's staples -- roomy buffalo-plaid flannel shirts, ten-button Tees and jeans -- did not offer buyers anything fresh. Even Banana Republic's safari look was running out of steam. Meanwhile, copycat stores seemed to be appearing on every corner...
...winning candidate flashes a toothpaste smile and a boyish charm. He wears button-down shirts, pleated slacks and wire-rimmed glasses that suggest his Ivy League background. Clearly, Kurt Schmoke, 37, winner of the Democratic mayoral primary in Baltimore, represents a new breed of big-city black politician. He is no graduate of the clubhouse system dominated for some 30 years by William Schaefer, Baltimore's respected former white mayor, who was elected Governor of Maryland last November. Instead, Schmoke, a Rhodes scholar, is out of Yale, Harvard Law School and Oxford. Last week he defeated a black politician from...
...transformation under Editor Ivan Laptev into a lively collage of reporting and commentary. "For Soviet readers, Izvestia is the most interesting newspaper around," says Ogonyok's Biryukov. In early August the paper published an interview with a military officer whose duty it is to push the launch button at a nuclear missile center. Never before had a Soviet publication reported in such detail on a missile site and the men who operate...