Word: detective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pick up the nation's economic tremors quickly. Treasury Spokesman Joseph Laitin points out that we do not have the foreclosures, soup lines, dispossessions and other instant aftershocks from economic swings that used to send signals racing through the political system. Letdowns are more gentle, often hard to detect in the salubrious environment of the Oval Office...
...many advertisers say that they detect a more subtle, almost schizophrenic attitude among consumers. E.E. Norris, executive vice president of the Manhattan ad agency Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, has nicknamed this the "splurge or scrimp" mentality. He argues that today's consumers are willing to spend heavily on goods and services that they value highly either for their ego satisfaction or convenience, such as Gucci shoes or Cuisinarts. But on products that they do not value so much, buyers are cutting corners. The extreme example: the Mercedes owner who wears K Mart clothes. Says Norris: "The consumer would rather...
...Until next time"--the phrase conjured a specter of success, a shadow of eventual secession to observers across Canada. In Levesque's deeply-set eyes Tuesday night, you could detect both shattering disappointment and tenacious optimism. The self-styled Lenin of the Quebec "revolution" viewed the setback as severe, but stressed that the verdict is still out. "The ball is in the federalists' court," he said in French, words received by his supporters with a chorus of catcalls. The loss in the plebiscite was a watershed; but it did not, to quote Churchill, mark the beginning...
...anxiety tension problem is a nationwide epidemic "as serious as the bubonic plague," Humes says, explaining that a tension epidemic is more frightening "because the symptoms are harder to detect...
...fourth inning, spectators can detect traces of green artificial turf. Eventually, the playing surface emerges but the snowfall continues until the top of the ninth...