Word: glamourize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about their identity. The extensive sale of hair straighteners, skin-lightening creams and $20 wigs bears witness to this fact. Many would undoubtedly like to emulate the handful of women who have attained the sophistication that marks them as black Frenchwomen and black Englishwomen. One woman of such apparent glamour is Younouss N'Diaye, a sensuous actress and painter who lived in France for five years before returning to Dakar, where she appears on television and has starred in a Senegalese motion picture, Le Mandat...
Morale varies widely among departments and agencies and often changes with changing circumstances. NASA's glamour quickly faded when the current economy cuts began. The Bureau of the Budget has excellent esprit, mostly because it has many jobs in the higher pay grades and advancement comes quickly. The status of chiefs can be important. At the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, which attracts a high proportion of idealists, elan plummeted when it became obvious that the Administration was cool to the goals of many department officials...
...made by investors who had patience, courage?and some cash. Last week, however, portents of any substantial rise in stocks were as hard to find as cheerful brokers. The Dow-Jones industrial average fell 15 points to 711, and new lows for the year were set by many faded glamour stocks, including American Hospital Supply, Avon Products, Walt Disney Productions, Iowa Beef, National Cash Register, Telex, Texas Instruments and Xerox. At week's end the Government reported signs that the economy was picking up: industrial production and personal income climbed in July, pretax corporate profits barely declined...
...addition, the mutual funds?notably the newer, smaller "gogo" funds ?were largely responsible for the dazzling but dangerous cult of "performance." This notion, which began taking root in 1965, was that aggressive institutions could wring more profit from a rising market by swinging in and out of glamour issues than by holding on to solid stocks. Trading volume?and brokers' profits?rocketed. Go-go funds made great leaps, and even some staid trust officers in banks joined the stampede to buy and sell. According to a study released last week by the Twentieth Century Fund, the trading policies...
...Kathleen Williams, 50, a former editor of Glamour magazine, is a Democratic candidate for Congress in Indiana. Her prime interest is the impending crisis in medical care (too few doctors, nurses and beds). Exceptionally outspoken, she advocates dropping all abortion laws and shifting the emphasis on crime from penalties to rehabilitative centers for drug addicts and drunks. Her slogan: "Indiana needs a woman in the House...