Word: gilt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Walker and the Marlboro man adorn the walls of roadside buildings, and billboards displaying the Ron Negrita girl under a palm tree contrast improbably with the splen did white peaks of the Pyrenees beyond. Cutting through the capital city is a gaudy strip of neon, glass and concrete, featuring gilt-balconied hotels, high-rise department stores and a six-story cemetery with burial vaults and showcases of floral tributes stacked atop one another...
...name, it envisaged in great detail the mechanics, if not all the solutions, that would enable Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians to work out over five years the final status of the West Bank and Gaza, a measure of autonomy for the Palestinians in those regions, and gilt-edged guarantees of security for Israel...
...gold we trust," is Deak's philosophy, and he has made many fortunes by dealing in gilt and anxiety. Clients crowd his Hong Kong branch offices to buy newly minted "Deak Dollars," small gold coins that command premium prices because they are stamped with Deak's aquiline features. Other customers stand in line at his 42nd Street outlet in Manhattan to buy gold coins and Swiss franc traveler's checks, which they stash away as investments. At this rate, Nick Deak will be giving Karl Maiden some competition. Still other investors-widows, orphans and the simply frightened...
Argentina's Juan and Eva Perón gave a different wrinkle to the haberdashery of power. Although they dressed like Napoleon and Josephine, they identified themselves with the descamisados, the shirtless poor who supported Perón from 1946-55. It was a classic case of gilt by association. Both Peróns came up from the bottom, and their ostentation and tantrums against the upper classes provided vicarious thrills for the masses they left behind...
Walter Wriston, probably the nation's most influential banker, thinks he has some answers. As chairman of New York's Citicorp, he is a gilt-edged Establishmentarian who gets an insider's rare look at loan-seeking corporations and bends elbows with their chiefs at the Metropolitan Club and the Greenbrier and the Business Roundtable. Yes, says Wriston, business should be strong both in 1978 and 1979, which is as far as anybody can foresee. But he is bedeviled by many questions about modern America, including who killed Jack Armstrong and whether Abe Lincoln could be elected...