Word: fabrics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Western Europeans, as well as the West German part of the alliance, were to prove incapable of action despite the international challenges and despite President Reagan's reaffirmation of the U.S.'s willingness to reduce its nuclear potential, that would produce more than a shock within the fabric of the alliance...
Societies from ancient Rome to Weimar Germany have suffered the consequences of such runaway prices. That kind of inflation usually tears apart the very fabric of a nation. When its currency no longer has any meaning, a country often loses its sense of values. Saving and planning for the future seem foolish; speculators prosper. Says Henry Wallich, a governor of the Federal Reserve: "Inflation is like a country where nobody speaks the truth...
Your article on Fashion Designer Giorgio Armani [April 5] was an exhilarating and refreshing story. He has done wonders with a bolt of fabric, and has an extremely well-groomed approach toward dressing a woman. If you've never experienced the feeling of wearing an Armani, you've never experienced comfort or freedom in clothes. I'm proud to flaunt his wings on the back of my jeans...
...cover story states, "clothes are the fabric of history, the texture of time," one can only hope that history will not repeat itself...
Typical was the initial response of Inger McCabe Elliott, 49, president of the New York-based China Seas fabric and wallpaper firm (1981 sales: about $5 million): "My nose is too close to the grindstone to run around in women's rights groups." She later joined. Said she after attending the Los Angeles meeting: "I felt I was among equals...