Word: gold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fixed idea about what to stock or what to call the store. Then Leight's brother Dennis got a call from a New York City antiques dealer, inquiring whether the group would be interested in some vintage eyewear. The samples he forwarded were promising: 12-karat gold-filled frames, at least 50 years old and decorated, as Dennis recalls, "with beautiful markings, beautiful filigree...
...lest you think I was (and still am) a lush,let me tell you that I managed to do reasonablywell in all my first-year classes--although no onehanded me a gold star for attendance. Oneclass--contemporary American history with AlanBrinkley--inspired me to read pages ofnon-required reading. Of course, Harvard sentBrinkley away the following year. He spent toomuch time with students and too little writingbooks, or something like that. So much foracademic inspiration. I signed up to be a Govmajor (Big Mistake...
...quailed at the thought of letting it touch the ground, in every citizen moved by pictures of it being raised at Iwo Jima or planted on the moon, in every veteran who has ever heard taps played at the end of a Memorial Day parade, in every gold-star mother who treasures a neatly folded emblem of her family's supreme sacrifice...
...Department of Housing and Urban Development, the hypocrisy of Reagan's rhetoric has been brought into sharp relief. During his Administration, a massive giveaway did take place, but to the greedy, not the needy. HUD, whose prime mission is to provide shelter for low-income citizens, instead became a gold mine for Republican insiders, ambitious developers and powerful Washington consultants...
...dinner (at its service charge of about 4% for restaurants) or 999 pennies in the case of the ticket (at its 2 1/2% or so on airline fares). The premium you paid for the platinum card, which has an annual fee of $300 a year vs. $75 for the gold card, primarily bought you prestige, the cost of which to Amex is nil. And the baggage insurance -- well, it would be hard to make a case that this is the kind of insurance protection that privileged Americans should not leave home without, but the offer, as always, was compelling. These...