Word: popular
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jeff until his Exxon days, Hazelwood seemed destined for a career at sea from an early age. One of four children of a veteran Pan Am pilot, he was born in Hawkinsville, Ga., in 1946, then moved with his family to a new | neighborhood in Huntington, Long Island, popular with young airline captains and their families. "If there were any problems, Jeff and I certainly felt isolated from them," says a boyhood chum, Martin Rowley. "Ours were perfect childhoods." Hazelwood's father was a stickler for discipline who permitted no drinking in his home...
Which comes in pretty handy if you're a first-term president following in the steps of the most popular leader in decades and you're widely perceived as being ineffective and overcautious...
...peace talks under way. Charging that Likud had "put heavy handcuffs on the peace process," Finance Minister Shimon Peres fumed, "Shamir can agree to Sharon's dictates, but the Labor Party will not." Party politicians pressed their leaders to bolt the coalition and force new elections. But Labor's popular appeal is dwindling, so the party leadership is expected to give the wounded peace plan one more chance...
...people in these scenes, which evoke the studied relaxation of a Ralph Lauren ad, look like the sort of folks who would hate to spend any of their precious free time at a shopping mall. In fact, their well-composed snapshots come from the pages of America's popular new crop of mail-order catalogs: Lands' End,* J. Crew and Tweeds. These three retailers are reaping handsome sales by offering sporty, preppy wear to customers who are partial to natural fibers and toll-free shopping. Last year the three companies mailed a total of more than 120 million catalogs...
...industrial pipes, J. Crew is far from folksy. The company's offerings are decidedly casual but with a note of sophistication. Arthur Cinader, 61, J. Crew's chairman, describes the J. Crew look as "understated flair." Cinader, whose family-owned firm operates a clothing-and-furnishings catalog business called Popular Club Plan, started J. Crew six years ago and had an almost instant...