Word: line
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...resume is now complete. That elusive last line can be typed in: George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st President of the United States. For nearly a quarter-century in public life, Bush has upheld the old-line patrician virtues of duty, service, loyalty and self-effacement. These qualities served him well as he clambered up the ladder of achievement. But on a cloudy Tuesday night in November, uplifted by the votes of more than 46 million Americans, Bush was elevated onto a higher plane. The years in the shadows, the natural deference to others, the small humiliations of a perpetual office...
...hype have long been partners; there must have been some prehistoric Frenchman urging his fellows to catch the cave paintings at Lascaux. But movies, as the first mechanical art form, have always churned on assembly-line publicity. With the mid-'70s success of People magazine, and later + Entertainment Tonight, the celebrity industry went high tech and high gear. Nearly every hour of the TV day, from Today and Good Morning America through Oprah and Donahue to Carson and Nightwatch, is filled with show-biz interviews...
...Limited chain's Outback Red, which sold more than $400 million last year. It began as a collection of Australian-inspired bush-country wear, and now features tamer English staples like jodhpurs and cable-knit sweaters. At Macy's, which sells an estimated 50 house brands, the Aeropostale line evokes the garb of 1920s French mail-plane pilots. The collection includes white silk scarves and rugged corduroy trousers. Macy's also offers a line of casual wear whose name makes a bald appeal to yuppie taste in real estate: Loft & Brownstone. At J.C. Penney, house brands range from the Silk...
...product-development experts who travel from Milan to Tokyo looking for ideas and materials. Most retailers opt for manufacturing in Asia ! to take advantage of low wages. The Limited can probably claim the industry's most streamlined distribution network. Within ten weeks, 700,000 garments for a new line can be woven, cut, sewn, flown from Hong Kong and placed on racks in the chain's 751 stores across...
...house brands take up more space on store shelves, some traditional name brands have been pushed aside. Some companies, like Spitalnick, a longtime manufacturer of expensive women's apparel, have responded by giving up manufacturing their own line of clothes to make private labels instead...