Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Having paid heavily to pump up their images, footwear-makers capitalize on their cachet by emblazoning their emblems on clothing. Nike, whose apparel sales reached $208 million in fiscal 1989, sells hundreds of garments ranging from lemon-colored cotton jerseys to hot-pink bicycle shorts. Next spring Nike will launch an Aqua Gear line for wind surfers and other hardy types...
...were now ravaged by flames. An old woman stood in front of the ruins of her home, a teakettle steaming on her stove but fire coming from the burning building. There was a skeleton on an iron bedstead nearby. She was dazed and poking in the hot ashes. Nearby a little boy was playing with a football -- all he had saved. The bodies of 14 horses were smoking and smelling in the street. Twenty feet from them were the bodies of ten people who had sought refuge in a dugout -- a direct...
...cost of college is a hot topic because tuitions will increase up to 9% this fall. Total costs at Harvard currently run about $20,000 a year; Maine's Colby College costs about $18,900. The similarity is not the result of price fixing, says Colby President William Cotter. The reason, he says, is "that a Ford costs about the same as a Chevy," or in the case of Harvard and Yale, a BMW costs about the same as a Jaguar. Cotter admits that the market is not price sensitive. "A family decides on private vs. public," he says...
...believed to hold a 3.5% stake in the company)? Back at Horace Mann High School in the Bronx, Davis' classmates said the pugnacious youth could -- and would -- argue any side of an issue. Even now he may be mulling his next daring move over a nice hot pastrami sandwich in Beverly Hills...
...lambada is especially hot along the Cote d'Azur, where touring Brazilian dancers are showing French vacationers how to thrust their stuff. But is the lambada just this summer's hype? "It will become a classic," declares singer Loalwa Braz. "And it will be even more agreeable to dance in the winter. It's a way to keep warm...