Word: instants
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...False eyelashes are back and stronger than ever because they're inexpensive and provide instant gratification," says Gina Brooke, artistic director of Shu Uemura, which also sells lashes for $20 or less. Indeed, as the economy slides--sales in the makeup sector have dropped 4% this year--women are looking for a cheap but glamorous lift. Sales of lipstick--traditionally the top performer in tough economic times--have not fared as well as those of mascara. While lipstick sales in February were down 11.5% from last year, according to the retail tracking company NPD, mascara sales dipped just...
...when it seemed possible that he might enact much of what he was seeking. And he was talking about far more than a new set of policies: he was implying a new set of national values. "There's also an impatience that characterizes [Washington]," he said, "that insists on instant gratification in the form of immediate results or higher poll numbers. When a crisis hits, there is all too often a lurch from shock to trance, with everyone responding to the tempest of the moment until the furor has died down ... instead of confronting major challenges that will shape...
...Many of us are so addicted to instant messaging or updating our Facebook albums that it can be hard to tear ourselves away from our precious technology long enough to spend time with real people. The enormous growth in membership in time-consuming online games such as World of Warcraft and Second Life is indicative of this problem—Second Life alone has 1.3 million users who log in per month. Many live in this virtual reality, paying real money for brand-name products or even marrying other characters within the game...
...commercial is all but extinct; we simply cannot focus for that long anymore. How many of us have spent hours flipping through the television, unable to settle on just one channel? Reared on a diet of constant entertainment, it is no wonder that some of us fail to find instant gratification in life and turn even more toward the virtual world...
...woman, Kristy Hammonds, 31, uploaded the video on YouTube. In a matter of days, thanks to Twitter and other viral social media, the clip had been viewed more than a million times and Domino's had an instant crisis on its hands. (The original video has been removed, but copies are still easily available online.) Both Hammonds and the other employee in the clip, Michael Setzer, 32, have been fired from the pizza-delivery chain and now face felony charges for distributing prohibited foods. Hammonds and Setzer say the video was just a prank, and that the unsanitary food...