Word: customs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Aaron if that solar system was saving the owners money or not. He said, "Well, the economics are tough. You have to really want to go solar. If all the parts were mass-produced it would be a lot cheaper, but Jim has to make all of that equipment custom...
...shrine to Ferragamo's shoes, with dramatic spotlights illuminating the glass cases containing his handiwork. The 199 shoes in those cases were chosen from among 10,000 in storage at Ferragamo headquarters in Florence. The Los Angeles setting is appropriate: Ferragamo got his start as a custom shoemaker while living in California between 1914 and 1927. It was Hollywood that first encouraged him to create shoes that were extravagant and unique; and it was Hollywood that encouraged women around the world to wear them...
...would-be Jesuit priest was now all the rage. He dated Linda Ronstadt (his only public romance so far) and began a life-long custom of throwing big-name parties...
Hazel waits patiently outside T.T. the Bear's Club. At 36, she's no youngster, but she's a classic beauty and still gets her share of appreciative stares. Hazel is, of course, a custom-modified 1956 Chevy schoolbus, The Olivz's band-vehicle extraor-dinaire...
...which could cause cancer in the user's offspring) or the high-estrogen birth-control pill (which was also rushed to market after hasty and dubious testing). A cynic might point to the medical profession's long habit of exploiting the female body for profit -- from the 19th century custom of removing the ovaries as a cure for "hysteria" to our more recent traditions of unnecessary hysterectomies and caesareans. A cynic might conclude that the real purpose of the $500 million-a-year implant business is the implantation of fat in the bellies and rumps of underemployed plastic surgeons...