Word: diehardism
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Sears' new sparkle can best be seen in its dramatically restyled "stores of the future."No longer is the center of attention reserved for such hard goods as Craftsman tools, DieHard batteries and Kenmore appliances. Now the emphasis is on the color-coordinated, freshly fashioned displays of stylish clothes and jogging gear, modern furniture and gourmet cookware. While the likes of Bloomingdale's and Neiman-Marcus have long merchandised their wares with flair, the redesign and reorganization are a revolutionary departure for Sears. Says Joe Fragale, operating manager of the Oak Brook, Ill., store: "We had so many...
...official editorial last week: "Any campaign or drive like those of the past is strongly banned. Civilized methods must be used to correct uncivilized behavior." Meanwhile, the government's new assault on "bourgeois" decadence has perplexingly coincided with, and sometimes overlapped, its official month-old purge against diehard leftists and other remnants of the Cultural Revolution. As the ruling party has taken one step to the left, then one to the right, the nation as a whole has been kept constantly off balance...
...more than a week, the durable chieftain and some 4,000 diehard supporters fought off a savage offensive by an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 Syrian-backed guerrillas in and around the northern port city of Tripoli. According to Abu Mousa, leader of the rebel faction that mounted the assault, it was meant only to persuade Arafat to enter a "dialogue of reform" with P.L.O. dissidents who oppose his policies. The battle, in reality, was nothing less than a crude move by Syria to squelch Arafat once and for all and seize control of the P.L.O. Faced with...
When Yale comes to play Harvard in tennis, all the diehard tennis fans show up--even the Yalies now at Harvard Med who are tied forever to their hate for the Crimson...
Sometimes it is purely psychological wounds that drive cocaholics to therapy. But diehard users can be prone to high-pitched anxiety, irrational fears, paranoia and even, reports Harvard's Grinspoon, "out-and-out cocaine psychosis:" Violence is not rare. When Nicky's wife finally smashed his free-basing pipe, he threw furniture and chased her from their suburban house. "I went ape," he says. Mike, the son of a well-to-do South Carolina lawyer, is a patient turned counselor at Charleston's Fenwick Hall drug-treatmeat center. He carried a gun during his cocaine madness...