Word: pickup
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...liked to refer to as "associates." In the process, he became America's richest person, his family's wealth estimated at $23 billion. But he also became the patron saint of a down-home style of megawealth; eschewing the fancy trappings of power, "Mr. Sam" drove an '88 Ford pickup truck and hopped around the country to visit stores, take the pulse of consumers and inspire his workers. His passion, his joy, was fine-tuning his vast merchandising network by insisting on such things as brighter smiles and cheerier "Good mornings" to customers from store workers, as well as offering...
...young men from the ghetto shaking out their frustrations by playing a kind of attack basketball -- all high-bouncing dazzle, nasty elbows and insults that come at you in rap rhythm. Billy Hoyle (Woody Harrelson) intrudes into this essentially black world with intent to hustle (gambling on these pickup games is heavy). Maybe WHITE MEN CAN'T JUMP, but in all other respects he's a fully qualified player -- except possibly in the brains department. But smart Sidney Deane (Wesley Snipes) has enough wit for both men, and after initial edginess they form a winning (and profitable...
...Detroit, where car sales had climbed 3% during the first two months of this year only to slide 6.9% in the period from March 11 to March 20. "Obviously, this is not a boom," says Thomas Webb, chief economist for the National Automobile Dealers Association. Yet the modest overall pickup has left the Big Three with dwindling backlogs of unsold cars and busier production schedules. Ford plans just 12 weeks of plant shutdowns to trim inventories in the second quarter, compared with 36 weeks for the same period a year ago. The downtime could be extended, though, if buyers stay...
...country performers looked just like them." And cable executives discovered what they had already suspected -- that, in Werner's words, "a country music fan is not over 60 and does not wear bib overalls, drink Lone Star beer from a long-stemmed bottle and drive a 20-year-old pickup with a shotgun rack in the back...
...from nearby Darien, says, "It's the only place I can be in public and show my feelings." And now that promiscuity is out, says Gary Marcinkowski, 25, who owns a Buffalo-area painting business, the atmosphere in a country bar offers another advantage: "It's less of a pickup scene...