Word: pers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economical, and to fight through that stereotype image and myth about the female being the weaker sex and all those things which is a bunch of crap." Arnold sounded a little like Henry Kissinger, a little like Bela Lugosi. He told Hercules about how women have 25-30 per cent fewer muscle cells, how they don't have testosterone, how he never met a woman who was satisfied with her looks. Then...
...nationalist leader said, "Colonialism doesn't work," and cited a $13 billion debt and a 30-40 per cent unemployment rate...
When it becomes legal to make a right turn on a red light this January 1, the law will not apply to 90 per cent of the state's intersections...
Ninety-six per cent of Boston's intersections will need signs, Robert Drummond, an official in the Boston Traffic Department, estimated. An employee at the Cambridge Traffic Department said Cambridge would need signs for over 90 per cent of its intersections...
Value-conscious consumers, of course, are not the only people paying premium prices. Some upmarket shopping is strictly self-indulgent and "Me Generation" snobbery. Candy consumption is down, but status-hungry consumers are still gobbling up items like Godiva, chocolates at $12 per lb. L'Oréal hair-care products push the message to shoppers: "L'Oréal is more expensive, and I'm worth it." Still, says Lord & Taylor Chairman Joseph E. Brooks, "I do not think there will be promiscuous luxury buying of gifts...