Word: pricey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...earnings also came under attack; Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman of California last week unveiled a 354-page Office of Technology Assessment report that charged that drug firms raked in $2 billion of "excess profits" a year and lavished vast sums on "wasteful" campaigns to encourage doctors to prescribe pricey medications...
...jobs in a Clinton Administration," says Terri Robinson, one of many area brokers who have been contacted by potential Democratic home buyers. The town houses of Georgetown and Cleveland Park are getting a look-over, says Robinson, although many frugal Democrats may end up settling in the less pricey suburbs of Maryland and Virginia. One upscale piece of D.C. real estate that has already crossed party lines: the $2.2 million Tracy Place town house that was the scene of parties hosted by socialite Georgette Mosbacher, wife of former Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher, has been sold to Democratic hostess Esther Coopersmith...
...backs. Rap is also a worldwide fashion commodity. Local variations of the basic American street outfit -- baggy pants, pricey sneakers, hooded sweatshirts, flashes of jewelry -- turn up everywhere, from dance clubs to fashion layouts. Yves Saint Laurent produces golden belt buckles with his logo writ large, Public Enemy-style, and Karl Lagerfeld loads his Chanel models with enough baubles to sink M.C. Hammer into the ground like a stake. Spike's Joint in Tokyo (yes, that Spike) supplies Japanese trendies with film-related merchandise, from team jackets ($794) to the official Malcolm X baseball cap ($39) -- the one indispensable part...
Little Angeline Luceil Crowell reinvented herself as Ann Eden and snagged a millionaire, a good-looking twit in a naval ensign's uniform named William Woodward Jr. Ann worked hard at domestic life. She mastered French, hunted down pricey antiques at auctions and gamely entertained people with hyphenated names who clearly despised her. Above all, she yearned for Billy's virago mother Elsie to accept her. Billy, for his part, spent his time in bed with other women or at Belair, his beloved racing stable. Finally, on a chilly October night in 1955, after years of not-so-private misery...
...candidacy. Hamilton Jordan and Ed Rollins, his odd-couple team of political handlers, were frustrated by the candidate's unwillingness to be handled. First Jordan was said to be heading for the door, but at midweek it was Rollins who actually left, thwarted by Perot's rejection of a pricey ad campaign. Then, suddenly, Perot himself was gone, stepping aside, he said, because he had concluded that he could not win in November. Or was he gone? In TV appearances Friday, he talked about helping to form an ill-defined third force to endorse congressional candidates...