Word: gritted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...main selling point of the 76-year-old Filen's Basement is its "automatic markdown policy filen's buys overstock and irregulars form what it calls grit and glamorous stores, and then resells it at discount determined by a now famous formula. If the item sits on the rack for f12 days its initial prose will be cut by 25 percent. After six more days, the price is reduced 50 percent with in another six 75 percent. And if a piece of clothing doesn't sell by 30 days after it first hits the floor, Filen's gives...
...leaving the U.N., but Jeane Kirkpatrick, 58, is not the sort to cool off on the sidelines. At a Washington party celebrating her imminent return to academe as a government professor at Georgetown University, Administration luminaries like Caspar Weinberger, William Casey and Edwin Meese toasted her grit in championing U.S. foreign policy and applauded her plans to carry on the battle for hearts and minds with a book, a weekly syndicated newspaper column on international affairs and a busy schedule of speaking engagements. Kirkpatrick merely smiled as talk turned to a possible presidential candidacy in 1988, but there...
...adventures, big-sky westerns and film noir mysteries that starred some of the screen's greatest names, including Gary Cooper (The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, 1935), James Stewart (Call Northside 777, 1948), Tyrone Power (The Black Rose, 1950), James Mason (The Desert Fox, 1951) and John Wayne (True Grit, 1969); in Los Angeles...
MIAMI VICE (NBC). Unlike most of the season's new shows, this hard-nosed police series has actually improved since its pilot. The first network series since Hill Street Blues to establish a unique look and tone: an alluring mix of cinema verite grit and rock-video glitz...
...presidency. Continuously under a scrutiny more intense than was ever before applied to a vice-presidential candidate, she made few gaffes and gave no ground. With her candidacy hanging in the balance, she called a press conference to explain her unquestionably sloppy financial dealings and astonished everyone with her grit and control. In her televised debate with George Bush, she maintained a cool gravity and delighted the audience by calmly objecting to the Vice President's apparent condescension...