Word: oversold
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Sometimes, though, shoppers are dismayed by SORRY OVERSOLD tags on popular pieces. Though some frustrated customers think IKEA is always out of all the goodies they want, the actual total hovers at 200 to 300 of 13,000 items. To keep prices down, IKEA buys a whole year's supply of goods in advance for all its stores throughout the world, then bets that its projections are right...
...general caution reflected fears that Gorbachev, like Andropov, was being oversold in parts of the West as a man of "liberal" views who would take radical measures to revamp the Soviet system and open doors to the outside world. In fact, very little was known in the West about Gorbachev until recently, except that he was a Moscow State University-trained lawyer and an agronomist, and a man of remarkable political staying power. Then, last December in Britain, Gorbachev and his wife created a stir with their unproletarian style--the London penny press called them the Gucci Comrades. Within days...
...could use." The authors also devised their own formulas. To gauge climate, for example, they developed a complex scheme relating relative humidity to seasonal variations in temperature. To update the 1980 census, they turned to such sources as IRS change-of-address lists. One discovery: the Sunbelt may have oversold its desirability. Address changes for the past two years show % the Northeast has been gaining population while the West has been losing it. Conclude the authors: "Not only did our (older) cities not die, they are undergoing a rejuvenation unparalleled in our history...
...technically inclined businessmen, but today they are outnumbered by a new breed of consumer: the computer naive. These first-time customers are more cautious, less technically sophisticated and less convinced that computers will change their lives. By and large, they are right. "For the new consumer, the stuffs been oversold," says Esther Dyson, editor of RELease 1.0, an industry newsletter. "The technology is still too hard...
...once thought Vincent the Dutchman had been a trifle oversold, from Kirk Douglas gritting his mandibles in the loony bin at Saint-Rémy to Greek zillionaires screwing his cypresses to the stateroom bulkheads of their yachts, you would be wrong. The process never ends. Its latest form is "Van Gogh in Aries," at New York City's Metropolitan Museum. Viewed as a social phenomenon rather than as a group of paintings and drawings, this show epitomizes the Met's leanings to cultural Reaganism: private opulence, public squalor. Weeks of private viewings have...