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...director of Bloomingdale's, who wears "only Armani," and Daniel Hechter, Europe's top-selling men's sportswear designer-believe that the U.S. will come to the ascendancy. If they are right, here are a couple of kings and two comers who will be riding the crest of the wave...
With sudden and bruising harshness, Mexico's five-year economic joyride on the crest of rising worldwide petroleum prices has come to an end. Instead of enjoying swelling financial reserves and broadening prosperity for Mexico's 72 million citizens, the government of President José López Portillo finds itself confronting a witch's brew of staggering unemployment, rising inflation and pyramiding foreign debts...
About once a month, though, the juice glasses at Jerry's Restaurant on San Felipe Road rattle in the rack, and the forest of real estate signs on San Benito Street shiver at the crest of a quake scoring 3 or more on the Richter scale. When a 5.9 quake snaked through town in August 1979, Tricia Brem was in labor at Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital; her bed rolled across the room and slammed into the opposite wall. During the same quake, Store Owner Fernando Gonzalez watched $30,000 worth of liquor somersault from his shelves. Gonzalez...
...wood than by electricity from nuclear power plants. A recent study by Dartmouth College's Thayer School of Engineering also found that more than 49% of all industrial boilers built in 1980 burn mainly wood. Says Energy Expert Nigel Smith of Worldwatch: "The U.S. is on the crest of the wave of nations returning to wood...
FASHION SELDOM admits of any studied explanation. Wavelike, trends rise, crest, fall and rise again seemingly without reason. Even fashionmongers, the people who devote themselves to charting these periodic cycles, make no pretense of perceiving a rational causality in it. Rather, they channel their energies into sniffing out the true trend-setter-or-reviver from among the herd of recherche hangers-on who persist in feeding off the piled carcasses of defunct trends...