Word: frugality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...perhaps most troublesome for the Coop isthe possibility that shoppers themselves, withfading memories of the loose purse-stringed 1980s,have just become more frugal...
...terminally rude, even to close friends. He was a remote, absentee father who viewed his offspring with suspicion and alarm. "My children weary me," he once confided to his diary. "I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless." Perhaps in reaction to his frugal middle-class upbringing, he became an aristocrat-toadying snob who tended to confuse proper breeding with moral worth...
...future in the pool is bright and his smile is winning, but Alexander Popov takes an austere, even bleak view of the world outside. The 100-m freestyle swimmer, who won the European championship last year, worries about Russia's future and takes an intensely frugal approach to life. "I look soberly on literally everything, even on girls. I am totally unromantic," he says...
...Frugal Gourmet: necessary recipes to supplement dining hall fare: Wigglesworth salad dressing--mustard, vinegar and oil and dill; honey-mustard sauce--honey mixed with mustard; Store 24 Burritos--burrito, microwave, iron stomach...
...slump. But it has also accelerated a wave of firings that can only be attributed to longer-term structural changes, including a drastic shakeout in industries that were overbuilt in the 1970s and '80s. Among the worst hit is retailing, which is undergoing a painful adjustment to the frugal '90s. Just last week Zale, the largest U.S. jewelry-store operator, said it would close 400 of its 2,000 stores and lay off 2,500 workers. "We are looking at the historic restructuring of the American economy," says Dan Lacey, an Ohio- based employment consultant. "It's not just decline...