Word: fur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also a great time for the popular sport of bargain hunting, even when some bargains turn out to be extravagantly expensive. Says Frank Drewitt, managing director of Harrods of London: "An American couple flew in on the Concorde one evening, bought some fine luggage and a fur coat the next day, and flew back home on the Concorde that evening...
...estimated $60 million from American tourists last year, 6% of all they spent in Britain. The department store advertised its post-Christmas sale in the New York Times, and one Wisconsin woman stood outside all night before the sale began so that she could lead the stampede into the fur department, where a $69,000 sable coat went...
Shura, 37, a bearded artist in a faded sheepskin coat, a fur hat tipped to one side of his head. He beckoned toward a darkened doorway before speaking: "Lenin was the only one who thought about us; all the leaders who followed him were ambitious. That is why Brezhnev let us live our own lives; he lived a pretty nice one himself, eh? I have a friend who knows people in the Central Committee. He says that Gorbachev knows what he is about, that he is with it. Say, let's sneak off for a drink. Why huddle here discussing...
...microscopic control maintained at the top of that pyramid is almost beyond Western comprehension. In 1983, for example, a published summary of one Politburo meeting revealed that, among other things, the members of the Soviet Union's supreme decision-making body had considered whether to lower the price of fur collars on winter overcoats. They decided that the Council of Ministers should take swift action. A few days later, a decree cut the prices of the collars...
...every working day, single lines about Gorbachev grew to paragraphs, and head shots became full- length photographs of a well-tailored, energetic man. Reagan took notice, knowing that Konstantin Chernenko would be dead sooner than later. Gorbachev's good-humored outing in Britain last December with his fur-clad, stylish wife provided plenty of new material. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher stored up a lot of impressions from her 3 1/2 hours of meetings with Gorbachev, and she carried them all across the Atlantic with her a month ago and constructed for Reagan the first flesh-and-blood portrait...