Word: modishly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...silver: it's a boy. Next, a balloon bouquet of pink, pearl and white: a girl. In Hollywood, where trendiness is a measure of sincerity, sending flowers to mothers who have just given birth to babies went out with designer jeans and saying "Trust me." These days the modish gift is balloons...
...number of U.S. companies have noted a modish increase in their profits as well. Gerber Products in Fremont, Mich., makers of baby food, pacifiers, baby bottles and other merchandise, recorded sales of $282.6 million at the end of 1972. Last year sales had swelled to $631 million. Child Craft, in Salem, Ind., a baby-furniture maker, has noted a "remarkable upsurge" in sales. One of the reasons, says David Branaman, vice president of sales, is that some couples spend up to $2,500 on clothing, furniture and equipment by the time the baby comes home from the hospital...
Saito, the young, eager sales engineer, wears more modish togs and lives three miles away in a $62,500 four-room house that also has a well-cared-for garden. Saito bought the house two years ago with his own savings, plus loans from his company and bank. Despite monthly house payments of $152 and an additional $1,810 deducted from his yearly bonus to pay off the mortgage, he still saves 15% of his salary. While Saito likes Japanese food, he started his day with a Western-style breakfast of coffee, bread and two hard-boiled eggs...
...water laced with 800 Ibs. of dissolved Epsom salts and heated to 93°F. He glides back and forth once or twice, feeling weightless because of the high buoyancy, then settles back, secure in the knowledge that he is one of the earliest consumers of a modish new psychic treatment: tank therapy...
...band!" he shouted from a concert stage last year. Now, instead of yelling at the audience, he jumps down into the crowd, Springsteen style, and romps among them. Like our old friend Paul Free, he has also had his shoulder-length hair shaped into some thing more modish, just right for the group's appearances on the Dinah Shore show and their own celebrity golf tournament. The Doobies' management has already booked the boys into Las Vegas...