Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York is going through one of its up periods. I have never seen Manhattan looking so prosperous. Somebody planted petunias in huge hangers up and down the street-lamps of 34th Street. Lower Sixth Avenue is a refurbished shoppers mecca. And in place of the old, ugly little traffic-island cum death trap on the corner of my tiny three-block long Greenwich Village street sits a new, brilliantly designed safe and elegant little garden. There are still homeless people sleeping in Abingdon Square, but someone has planted cosmos-flowers there too. I've never seen such things outside Vermont...
...office there are only low voices and the twick of computers heralding the new century. The clovelike smell of printer's ink has already been subdued by cleaning solvents and fresh paint. The absence is marked, though, by a great, gaping hole in the back shop, as if a huge molar had been yanked...
...Deseret-brand canned peaches from the Mormon cannery in Boise, Idaho. Nearby are Deseret tuna from the church's plant in San Diego, beans from its farms in Idaho, Deseret peanut butter and Deseret pudding. There is no mystery to these goods: they are all part of the huge Mormon welfare system, perhaps the largest nonpublic venture of its kind in the country. They will be taken away by grateful recipients, replaced, and the replacements will be taken away...
...controversial doctrine: Smith himself received God's sanctioning of polygamy in 1831, but 49 years later, the church's President announced its recision. Similarly, an explicit policy barring black men from holding even the lowest church offices was overturned by a new revelation in 1978, opening the way to huge missionary activity in Africa and Brazil...
Many downtowns are reviving; yet other retailers have swiped huge chunks of Woolworth's business. Stores like Staples knocked off stationery, while drug chains like Rite Aid made deep inroads in variety goods. Current CEO Roger Farah, tired of trying to figure out how to sell notions, will convert many sites to FootLockers. Selling $100 Nikes is a much simpler--and more profitable--proposition...