Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the specter of recession looming across the U.S., consumers and companies have cut back their spending. Yet Swiss jeweler Piaget, whose motto is "Always do better than is necessary," is betting that the time is ripe for a new round of conspicuous consumption. Later this month Piaget will unveil its $1 million, gem-encrusted Aura watch, a flashy bauble that sports 237 diamonds set in an 18-karat-gold band and case...
...Souter's staff defended the Governor in a suit to prevent him from lowering the American and state flags over state buildings on Good Friday. In another Thomson crusade, Souter's staff unsuccessfully defended the state's attempts to prosecute residents who for religious reasons covered up the state motto -- "Live Free or Die" -- on their license tags...
...Houston, the West Europeans proposed aid to the Soviet Union and restrictions on greenhouse gases. Their American hosts privately grumbled about how expensive those proposals were, then publicly resorted to the oldest cop-out in the book -- form a committee and study the problem. The U.S. has a new motto: better to buy time than spend money, and if someone has to pay, better it be someone else. That's why the Germans and the Japanese, with their deep pockets, are particularly welcome at gatherings like last week...
...Dahne: "We expect to face the same competition here as in West Germany." That appears likely. Deutsche Bank will be opening 100 branches together with an East German partner. Dresdner Bank, which quickly set up an office in the city where it got its name, is expanding under the motto "Back to the Future...
...15th century palace; the main Olympic stadium is a renovated 1929 arena. This month Antoni Tapies, Catalonia's best-known living painter, will open, in a refurbished art deco mansion, a foundation featuring four decades of abstract works. "Catalonia," says Tapies, "can be summed up in an old motto, seny i rauxa -- prudence and daring...