Word: karens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...less than the salesperson. The new breed of shoppers operates on the principle that life is short, winters are cold, and it is better to spoil yourself than rely on a man to do it for you. "I always wanted a fur, and I get what I want," says Karen Fallica, 24, an accountant from Brooklyn who earns about $25,000 a year and has budgeted $6,000 for a mink. "It's not worth it to wait for a guy to get you one," maintains Vesna Vujosevic, 23, a secretary from Queens, as she prowls through Manhattan's Saks...
Other individual victors for the aquawomen included Janice Sweester in the 200-yd freestyle, Kaari Reierson in the 200-yd backstroke, and Anne Hardy who edged out Meyer in the gruellng 500-yd freestyle. Karen Schneider rounded. out the Crimson victory parade with a first in the 200-yd individual medley...
Finally, with 3:10 left to play in regulation, Harvard scored to force overtime. On a fine passing combination, the puck went from Karen Carney to Co-Captain Johanna Neilson to Albright, who slapped it into the back of the Dartmouth...
Activity is just one of the many different factors that each senior adviser weighs in creating the rooming groups in his or her section of the freshman dorms. Karen L. Heath, senior advisor for the Union dorms, says she places a lot of emphasis on keeping night owls and early risers apart, while Stubbs says that she considers musical tastes to be particularly important...
...fact, America's shopping habit has become so ingrained that any lasting reversal may take a while. After the long-running, sunny times of the early '80s, many consumers feel little need for rainy-day reserves. Karen Peters, 43, of Orange, Calif., earns $48,000 a year as a county executive but typically keeps less than $1,000 in savings. On a recent trip to Santa Fe, she dropped $3,000 on a lithograph and a turquoise necklace. Says Peters, a widow who spends a portion of her income to help support her mother, 67, and daughter, 21: "Having money...