Word: precious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...process, many of the glamour investments of the 1970s have fallen from favor, notably nonproductive "collectibles" like wine, antiques, coins and other such prosaic places to put money. The stock market is also luring funds that, through the 1970s, were going into precious metals, gems and real estate, even though their prices have continued to rise. Silver, for example, was selling in June for 109.5% more than it was a year earlier, gold for nearly 30% more. Diamonds, though, did not gain...
Television has made campaign humor essential, since snappy one-liners help win precious time on the evening news. "Humor works," says Columnist Mark Shields, who sometimes gives jokes to Democrats. "It says, 'I'm not pompous. I'm not pretentious...
After a succession of religious endorsements, King and Washington entered the chapel to the strains of "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" and took their campaign to the clergy...
...Japanese now use a greater amount of precious oil in industries that produce exports. Last year 53.5% of every barrel of oil went to industrial purposes (compared with 29.3% in the U.S.), while only 20.6% went to transportation and 22.2% to heating...
...making things compact is a matter of survival on an island where usable space is as precious as water in the desert. Skill accounts for much of Japan's commercial success. But shibusa (the adjective is shibui), an untranslatable part of the Japanese mystique, gives Japanese designers an edge over their U.S., Italian and Scandinavian colleagues. It means not just beauty, but the beauty of calm understatement; not just perfection, but perfection emphasized by some slight flaw. It means both flair and simplicity. Yasumo Kuroko, Sony's chief product designer, offers a definition: "It's the just...