Word: creams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...latest wrinkle in self-improvement for men is skin care. It seems that after kidding the wife about all that goop she put on her face, some husbands were sneaking the stuff themselves. Now many men are coming out of the water closet and openly buying pricey new shave creams and such exotic accompaniments as toners, tightening masks, bronzers and even under-eye cream...
...architecture degree at the University of Texas at Arlington. "But it seems like in my age group everybody is using a lot of men's skin-care products." Blacks are among the most enthusiastic fans. J-Christopher Phelps, 22, a Chicago modern dancer, started with a shave cream to reduce the irritation of razor bumps, a curse of black shavers, and now buys products from different companies. "Once you get into the routine," he says, "you're hooked...
...worked flawlessly though there were two breathless 3-sec. intervals when the heart stopped beating, as technicians switched from one system to the other. Afterward, Schroeder thanked the inventor of the device, Engineer Peter Heimes of Aachen, West Germany, and shook his hand. Then he asked for some ice cream...
...outside the industry. Says Rhode Island Democrat Fernand St Germain, chairman of the House Banking Committee: "Deregulation poses the greatest threat to the continued existence of a network of small and medium-size community banks. The claims [by the large banks] that deregulation is as good as ice cream and apple pie are beginning to wear thin." Donald Nutt, president of Baldwin State Bank ($25 million) in Baldwin City, Kans., frets about depersonalization. Says Nutt: "It's easy for the big banks to lose the human touch...
...voice has been one of the loudest and most persistent calling for textbook reform. In his own state, below fifth grade a zoo story may not include such words as beaver, parrot, goat - and zoo. A California anti-junk-food lobby's taboo still limits references to ice cream, cake and pie. "I'm all for good eating," says Illinois Reading Specialist Jean Osborn, "but for a child in a story not to be able to have a birthday cake...