Word: marts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their own misery, suicide being the only solution for characters who either had a homosexual fling (Don Murray in Advise and Consent) or were accused of one (Shirley MacLaine in The Children's Hour). Moral: the only good gay was a dead gay. It took the 1970 film of Mart Crowley's hit play The Boys in the Band to find good news amid the woe. As one character noted, "Not all faggots bump themselves off at the end of the story...
...lemon business promises to become lemonade. In Dearborn, Michigan, last week, nine of the nation's biggest and most powerful automobile dealership owners (annual sales: about $4 billion) announced plans to invest $100 million in a chain of 10 Driver's Mart superstores, manned not by commission agents but by salaried "sales consultants" offering "pre-owned," "nearly new" and "off-lease" autos at nonnegotiable, uniform prices. Driver's Mart plans to sell the reconditioned cars complete with warranties and 30-day return policies. "When you think of shopping for a car," urges Driver's Mart president Thomas Eggleston, "think Home...
What is driving Driver's Mart and the others is in part a desire to Simonize a business stained by imputations of high-pressure tactics and low-rent ethics. The bigger reason is profits. The used-car trade is now the fastest-growing segment of the automobile market, largely because of consumer resistance to rising new-car prices and the brisk turnover in the booming car-leasing business, which accounts for 32% of all new-vehicle transactions. About six of every 10 cars and trucks sold nowadays are secondhand, and given the deep discounting of automakers on pristine models...
...wealth uphill, sooner or later some of this money will trickle down to ordinary people in the form of decent-paying jobs. But this can't work when there are, as Buchanan himself says, "two economies" instead of one. Downsizing delights Wall Street, even when it means the K Mart class has to skip Christmas; and the stockbrokers all cringe when unemployment falls...
Alan deMeurers became a Health Net subscriber in February 1989, when he began teaching kindergarten in Lake Elsinore, California, southeast of Los Angeles. Christy, formerly a K Mart manager, also became a teacher there in July 1992 and also chose Health Net, the least expensive of three options. They paid little attention to the nitty-gritty details of the plan. Alan says he did not even receive a copy of the full contract until well after signing. And when it did arrive, he says, "I just threw it in a pile with all the other papers...