Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...focusing your attention on making sure that you'll be economically successful, because you remember when you weren't." yet economic security has never insulated raines from the realities of race he has downplayed so skillfully in his professional life. even now, he says, if he goes shopping in casual clothes, "1 out of 3 times there'll be a store detective watching...
...frozen-food family) keeps his feet firmly planted in a very personal and often very funny account of his own assimilation into the culture of the Net. Sure, his head may spin a bit as he makes his initial encounters--his first E-mail exchange finds him in surprisingly casual conversation with Bill Gates; he samples the mysteries of cybersex disguised as a half-woman, half-faun named Bambi. But a little head spinning is to be expected at first, and Seabrook is never more on target than when coolly observing it in himself...
...White House courtship of Kaye was never casual. While disguised as a social minuet, it was really part of a high-tech operation situated not far from the Oval Office and used to track and nurture potential donors to the President's re-election effort. Kaye's name was entered into a secret White House database under the designation "major contributor," a status befitting the $137,000 he gave to the Democratic cause last campaign. The filing system, dubbed WhoDB for White House Office Data Base, was used by Clinton's campaign team to stay on top of donors...
...rooms and furniture departments that migrated to their own stores. To stock the shelves, new merchandising chief Robert Mettler, recruited from Robinson's, brought in popular national brands such as Champion, Arrow and B.U.M. and launched fashionable Sears-designed garments (imagine!) such as the Canyon River Blues and Crossroads casual wear lines. To unsnarl their flow through Sears' supply lines, Martinez hired his own three-star general, William ("Gus") Pagonis, who headed Army logistics during the Gulf...
...Casual readers will be most interested in the many stories of inspiring derring-do, as well as cautionary tales of derring-don't--the weight of which tends to suggest that they don't make fabulous spies, or spy catchers, the way they used to. For instance, Josephine Baker, the storied American cabaret star who made her home in Paris, spied for the Allies during World War II. She slipped out of Vichy France with intelligence information written on her music in invisible ink and with photographs hidden in her clothes. In Belgium a group of women known as Dames...