Word: marte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Further east, further down the economic scale, at the K mart on 65th Street, a woman in the check-out line flashes one of those sidelong looks that speak of revenge to be taken in the privacy of the voting booth. She says, "I'm from West Virginia. I find, in the family, it's the men who do most of the talking against having a woman Vice President. But hillbilly women stick together, you know what I mean? As my momma always said, 'The thread gets very thin, but don't ever give...
...society for an end to the bloodshed. Evelio Sorto, a teacher displaced by the war from his home in the northern department of Morazán, was among the crowd that trekked to La Palma. "If this opportunity is lost, we may never have another," he observed. Said Oscar Martínez, a local peasant: "This is a beautiful country, but the war is destroying it. I hope the leaders can forget their differences and think about what they are doing to El Salvador...
...California toy company called Koki rolled out a 4½-ft.-sq. polyvinyl dance mat designed especially for breaking. Price: $18. The company is promoting the mats with a $1 million TV ad campaign, and hopes to sell 500,000 by Christmas. Orders are already tumbling in from K mart stores across the country. Tucked inside the packages will be catalogs featuring matching T shirts, bandannas, armbands, knee pads and silicon wax to make spinning easier. A Pennsylvania firm, Apex International, has introduced a six-piece break-dancing kit for $20 that includes a folding mat, padded gloves, a glossary...
...1970s Sears was wandering. Recession, inflation and a plunging birth rate were assaulting its good, sturdy and traditional markets. Sears, like many of the American families that were its customers, was suffering an identity crisis. It was being squeezed between the pricey specialty shops and discounters like K mart and Wal-Mart. A secret document known as the "Yellow Book" that leaked out of the Chicago headquarters in early 1978 admitted the company's shortcomings and warned that Sears had to get back to its roots. Said the study: "We are not a fashion store...
...have inaugurated a new political style in the country," Argentine President Raul Alfonsin declared as he signed a 15-point agreement with former President María Estela (Isabelita) Martínez de PerÓn and the leaders of 14 other parties last week. The pact was another step in Alfonsín's drive to maintain national unity at a time when the country is facing an annual inflation rate of 568% and growing labor unrest. Some 400,000 miners, bus drivers, waterworks employees and metal-and grain-workers are currently demanding wage increases...