Word: fur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Consumers are showing a renewed taste for extravagance. Among the most popular items are high-fashion clothes and high-tech gadgetry. Shoppers are buying Oriental rugs, videocassette recorders, fur-tipped sweaters, microwave ovens and lots of costume jewelry. In toy departments, traditional and huggable products are upstaging video games. This year's hits: Coleco's pudgy Cabbage Patch Kids (about $35) and Kenner's fuzzy Care Bears (about $23). Military toys like Hasbro's G.I. Joe have also made a comeback...
...have read your article on "Ponzi Payment." Found it interesting, but none too accurate. My hair is neither chestnut nor grey. It's gone. Have never worn lavender pajamas nor pink ribbons on my night shirt. Fur coat and overshoes on cold nights have been my limit...
Boyd began his career in the early 1900s, selling typewriters. He later opened an office-supply business in Muskegon, Mich., and was that city's first Ford dealer. In 1928 he invested in the Mount Forest Fur Farms of America, which raised muskrats. The company went bankrupt in 1931. He helped reorganize the failed firm as Vermilion Bay, and the company struck it rich when oil and gas were later discovered on the Louisiana muskrat farm. Vermilion now collects royalties on 60,000 acres of land in Louisiana. Last year the company had profits of $1.6 million on sales...
...center's closing will put extra pressure on Cambridge's only other shelter for the homeless. Mary A. Kelley, administrative assistant at Shelter, Inc., said yesterday. "There isn't anything we can do to compensate fur its closing," she added...
...week, apparently without tiring. Barnes insists that Nureyev can keep performing, albeit in increasingly less demanding roles, for 20 or 30 more years, though such endurance is rare among dancers. Certainly, the final color photo of Nureyev in this book seems emblematic of ambition. Dressed in a cocky fur cap and a shiny, blazing red raincoat, Nureyev is seen striding gracefully, and purposefully, forward...