Word: karate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...order submitted in January to Miami's Bond Plumbing Supply Inc. seemed fit for King Louis XIV: a custom-made sunken bathtub, a sink with 24-karat gold-plated faucets, pastel blue toi lets, a "harvest gold" bidet with chrome-plated trim, even a portable Jacuzzi. But when Carol Cherrey, office manager and taxpayer, saw the name on the $8,934 or der, she said she "blew my stack." The deluxe fixtures were ostensibly ordered for a vocational instruction class at MacArthur South High School. Yet MacArthur, a school for 235 troubled youths, had no plumbing class...
...glittering jeweled pendant in the shape of Jack Hare, the book's central character. In Masquerade, the leaping hero takes a message from the moon to her beloved, the sun. For readers, the rabbit's message is a bit earthier: Williams fashioned the pendant of 18-karat gold. When he hid it last year, the hare was worth $10,000. Today it has doubled in value. "When I used to read stories about pirates, the pieces of eight became real gold buried in the ground," recalls Williams. "It was the child I once was that now demanded...
Once upon a time, a savvy Japanese hotelman named Hideki Yokoi came up with the ultimate gimmick. He spent $300,000 for a phoenix-shaped, 22-karat, solid gold bathtub, and installed it 14 years ago in the basement of his Funabara resort hotel about 100 miles south of Tokyo. A bit larger than normal, the tub holds a cramped two, and Yokoi was able to charge honeymooners and Very Good Friends $2.80 apiece for a five-minute soak that he claimed would prolong their lives for at least one year. For $4, a photographer burnished the moments for posterity...
...remained the swelling demand for precious metals, and the almost total absence of sellers, that kept markets in a weeklong state of 24-karat chaos. In the burgundy-carpeted, octagonal trading ring of the New York Commodity Exchange, where each day's worldwide price surge climaxed, there was unrestrained pandemonium. Brokers and dealers screamed buy orders in a deafening din that continued practically without interruption from 9:25 a.m. until the closing bell...
...that their "pure" gold bracelets were really cheap plate. Even if the pieces were in fact gold or silver, many sellers were unhappy to learn that they get considerably less than the much headlined prices of the metals. Sterling silver is only 92.5% pure, while 10-, 14-and 18-karat gold is respectively 42%, 58% and 75% pure. Also, dealers can take commissions of 10% or more on trades...