Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...retailers became obsessed with packing more merchandise into stores. Smart retailers now aim to "give the customer a feeling of familiarity, keep her in the store, make her linger," says Stone. Even small amenities like a coffee bar, says Martin Pegler, a professor of merchandising at Manhattan's Fashion Institute of Technology, can make customers feel more comfortable in a store. "It's not giggles and bubblegum and balloons," says Pegler. "It's convenience. People are longing for small pleasures in shopping...
NARCO CHIC Fashion is nothing if not aspirational. Slip on a black shift dress--look like Audrey Hepburn! Or don a shirt with images of AK-47s and feel like a Latin American drug trafficker! This is the fantasy being played out by clean-cut men in Mexico who are making popular a dope-inspired high style. After all, it's not a crime to wear a loud shirt in public...
...date from the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 and were aimed at "eliminating slums and blight." Today, TIME has found, HUD loans help bankroll such projects as a waterfront restaurant in Jacksonville, Fla. (it later went out of business), a downtown hotel in Philadelphia and an upscale fashion retailer in Spokane, Wash. In that case, a $24 million HUD loan arranged by the city of Spokane will go to construct a new store and enlarge a parking garage for Nordstrom...
...game began in scary fashion, however, as Holy Cross jumped out to a HOLY CROSS 70 HARVARD 84 14-8 lead on the strength of some hot shooting...
...dining hall gong. While some students may have found the Adams going ploy a wee bit divisive, not to mention disruptive, we at Dartboard heartily approve of such measures. Those of us with illusions of power and grandeur have always dreamed of having our entrances marked in such a fashion. But perhaps next week those enthusiastic Adams students will announce our names and full titles as well. In a final note, we advise the other houses not to be outdone. Create your own signature greeting rituals for Adams residents who grace your dinning hall--lougies in Leverett, wedgies in Winthrop...