Word: packs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the mania for designer chocolates, designer underwear, designer everything would one day lead to -- designer trash bags. Sure enough, in time for Christmas, retailer Neiman-Marcus came out with festive red bags bearing its logo. Displayed at 22 U.S. stores and priced as high as $6.25 for a pack of 20, the sacks were touted as the "aesthetic way to dispose of life's debris." In the garbage-handling industry, however, the color red is an almost universal symbol for infectious hospital waste, which calls for special treatment. When waste-management officials in Maryland complained about the potential...
...downtown hotels, while Americans are often relegated to the Tan Binh, a tedious, hour-long pedicab ride from downtown's central market. Among the scant diversions of the place: tasty, small loaves of French bread, pint bottles of dreadful Vietnamese vodka and a nearby tennis club. For a pack of American cigarettes, the local pro will cheerfully run you into a puddle of perspiration on the single cement court...
Rumors have it that opposing goaltenders bring out a pack of cards and play solitaire as the Yale offense struts its stuff between the blue lines...
...Already, many cruise lines offer discounts of up to 25% to keep their berths full. But the industry's leaders point out that only about 5% of the U.S. population has ever taken a cruise. They figure that there are enough potential cruise converts among the remaining 95% to pack the new megaliners, especially if those landlubbers keep watching Love Boat reruns...
...little child shall lead them. Hollywood got happier as viewers adopted the movie and word of mouth kept Baby booming. Even at Christmas, after a month's exposure, 3 Men easily led the box-office pack. By early this month it will have clambered up the Top Ten list to become 1987's fourth biggest hit. In its wake have come half a dozen newer comedies, most of which are Christmas carols in disguise. It is as if the industry realized that at holiday time comedies need to begin as Scrooge and end up as Santa. They must pretend...