Word: fancier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Things here are fancier. We are more into blazers, skirts and dresses," Melloon said. "We are influenced by French fashion and have our eye on Europe...
...Cook place is a model modern establishment with all the signs of a good farm: "clean fields, neatly painted buildings, breakfast at six, no debts, no standing water." Life is a round of chores -- the endless regimen of meals, the canning frenzies, the tireless pursuit of new and fancier equipment...
...September begging trip that was dubbed Operation Tin Cup. But Bonn is complaining about the high costs of German unification, and the Japanese Finance Ministry is grumbling about the nation's heavy debt. The U.S. Administration has some fancy arm twisting to do -- and if it fails, some even fancier explaining to Congress and the public as to why the U.S. should bear so disproportionate a share of the cost, in money and maybe in lives, of defeating Iraq's aggression...
...irony is that while news programming is proliferating, news gathering is drying up. The networks have become adept at devising new and fancier ways of packaging the news, finding the human-interest angle and the life-style feature, gathering experts for Ted Koppel or Lesley Stahl to interview at night. What they are doing less and less of, however, is day-to-day coverage...
Baskin Robbins probably needs less introduction than its fancier counterparts. As it proudly boasts, it has more than 2600 outlets nationwide. Still, simplicity has its own charm. Sometimes a burger at a greasy diner satisfies the palate more aptly than does nouvelle cuisine at a black tie eaterie...