Word: pricier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those who like it sweet can indulge in the down-home flavor of pecan-butter brittle confected by Buckley's Candies of Louisiana. Sophisticated and pricier are some imports from Belgium: Le Chocolatier Manon's bittersweet chocolates filled with mandarin orange liqueur and burnt caramel. Even more stunning is its big marbleized chocolate scallop shell that holds nine chocolate praline fruits de mer -- mussels, crayfish and shrimp -- a dessert that delights the eye as much as the palate...
These speedy high rollers are uppercrust DINKs, double-income, no-kids couples. They flourish in the pricier suburbs as well as in gentrified urban neighborhoods. There is no time for deep freezers or station wagons in their voracious, nonstop schedules. Many enterprising DINK couples slave for a combined 100-hour-plus workweek, a pace relieved by exotic vacations and expensive health clubs. Their hectic "time poor" life-style often forces them to schedule dinners with each other, and in some supercharged cases, even...
...Japanese, meanwhile, have virtually pushed low-priced European imports out of the U.S. market. Italy's Fiat stopped selling here earlier this year, and Renault will no longer offer its Le Car in America. Although Volkswagen still makes Rabbits at its plant in Westmoreland, Pa., it imports only pricier models like the Jetta, Sirocco and Quantum...
...pricier end of the market, Grid Systems of Mountain View, Calif., offers the Mercedes-Benz version. It has a thin, flat screen, folds into a sleek 9¼-lb. magnesium package and slips easily into the bottom half of a briefcase. The Compass Computer, as it is called, packs considerable storage capacity-enough to handle the wordage of a long novel. "It's a truly stunning engineering achievement," says one industry analyst. Equally stunning, however, is the price...