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...about a $50 fee for not brushing and flossing twice a day? An unmade bed is a real eyesore; let's make it a $100 mistake. No one shines his shoes anymore, but they would if a patch of unwinking leather cost...
...reliable color scheme has been supplanted by splotches of green, tan and brown. At Smith's store and dozens of others across the country, camouflage wear has become an undisguised rage. In the weeks before Christmas, camouflage outfits for children sold nearly as fast as Cabbage Patch dolls in some locales. And adults, whose need for protective coloration on city streets might seem to be minimal, are snapping up everything from camouflage-colored pants and shirts to jackets, caps, belts, wallets, bandanas, jogging shorts and men's bikini underwear...
When automakers closed their ledgers on 1983, they reported sales of 6.78 million cars, a 17.9% gain over 1982 and the industry's best performance since 1979. Quipped Edward Yardeni, chief economist for Prudential-Bache Securities: "Consumers couldn't buy Cabbage Patch dolls, so they went out and bought cars...
...jolly shoppers are jamming streets from San Francisco's Union Square to Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. An estimated 30% increase in store traffic as compared with last year has created three-deep layers of customers around display cases and has made parking spaces as scarce as Cabbage Patch dolls. Said Edward Brennan, chairman of the Sears merchandise group, after touring a company store in Oak Brook, Ill.: "It was wall-to-wall people. It made me feel great...
...years ago, overall U.S. prices and consumption seemed on an irreversible upward curve. French wines skyrocketed in cost, and many California vintners started charging chateau prices. It appeared as if every retired aerospace engineer and psychiatrist owned a golden patch of vineyard. Between 1978 and 1982, the Napa Valley alone gave birth to 50 new wineries; 47 started up in adjoining Sonoma County. Just as the new production was reaching the stores, European wines, most notably Italian and lesser-known French vintages, came on the market in increasing volume and at sensible prices. Last year U.S. wine sales went...