Word: creams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...General Motors sold twice as many cars during the second ten days of November (181,000) as Volvo expects to sell (73,000) during all of 1982. Still, with models that range in price from $12,000 to $20,000, Volvo has succeeded in skimming some of the luxury cream off the automotive market, along with its prospering high-priced competitors Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Saab and Porsche. Notes Analyst David Healy of New York's Drexel Burnham Lambert: "Only the affluent can consider buying cars now. To them money is no object...
...Tokyo's most prestigious marriage parlor. After the simple Shinto ceremony, capped by a sip of ritual sake, the groom, in cutaway coat and silk tie, and the bride, in a dazzling kimono, sat down with their 125 guests to consume a banquet, including lobster salad and ice cream. The master of ceremonies introduced important people from the couple's life-parents, teachers, bosses and friends. The guests offered presents. The current favored gift in Japan is hard cash, mainly to help strapped parents defray the expense of the wedding. Acceptable gifts are $100 for a single guest...
...agrees with Nagy's reference to the calming effects of jogging. Ozmeni says. "When you sit around on your fanny all day, as most serious scholars do, writing, you build up a lot of tensions and frustrations and energies. Also I run so I can eat as much ice cream as I like. You have to feel better, you have to look better, you have to be more friendly and sociable if you do some kind of exercise. Athletes are the friendliest people, right...
...only Catholic boy on the block in his home town of Columbia, S.C. Of necessity, childhood became a venture in grass-roots ecumenism. He recalls, "I used to go to the Bible school that the Baptist church sponsored, especially on the days when they gave out ice cream...
...make entries include Novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' chocolate cookies, chocolate pepper pretzels, Joe froggers cookies (named for the inhabitants of a Marblehead, Mass., frog pond) and an inviting array of souffles and mousses, notably a sour lime mousse with strawberries. Frozen desserts vary from San Francisco ice-cream pie to a delectable grapefruit ice. As for the confection she labels "the Best Damn Lemon Cake" . . . it may just be that...