Word: dears
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anthems, no style to call their own. They crave entertainment, but their attention span is as short as one zap of a TV dial. They hate yuppies, hippies and druggies. They postpone marriage because they dread divorce. They sneer at Range Rovers, Rolexes and red suspenders. What they hold dear are family life, local activism, national parks, penny loafers and mountain bikes. They possess only a hazy sense of their own identity but a monumental preoccupation with all the problems the preceding generation will leave for them...
Such concerns could prove irrelevant, since consumer resistance to DAT may well render it DOA. The machines are dear: $950 for Sony's model, vs. $150 for a cheap CD player. But DAT's biggest flaw is that it may quickly become obsolete. Japanese companies are already working on a recordable CD, and the Dutch electronics firm Philips has developed a new format called digital compact cassette. DCC machines, which unlike DAT recorders can play traditional as well as digital tapes, could be available as early as next year...
...future is the Kims. While Kim Il Sung may be above criticism, his son and intended successor, "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il, 48, is not. The younger Kim, who is in charge of the nation's day-to-day affairs, is being groomed for the communist world's first dynastic succession, but many North Koreans privately blame him for the country's economic problems...
...Dear Sirs and Madams...
...DEAR Senior...