Word: ranging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...generations, handmade Louis Vuitton luggage and Moet-Hennessy's classic Dom Perignon champagne -- now about $1,830 for a suitcase and $50 a bottle -- have been fixtures in castles and mansions everywhere. In 1986 Moet- Hennessy sold $1.34 billion worth of champagne and other luxury goods, while Louis Vuitton rang up $291 million. Last week the two French firms, which are still family controlled, announced plans for a merger...
Womanizing was a side of Kennedy too: Did Hart take emulation that far? Yet one could also detect in Hart some unbidden traces of Richard Nixon. Some Americans sensed a troubling vibration in Gary Hart that was difficult to describe, but that rang wrong. Hart may be right to be bitter about the amateur psychiatry that has been practiced upon him. Still, Americans have fairly sensitive instruments of perception. Hart said last week that it was issues that gave him his "link" to the American people, a strange conceptual way of putting it -- as if he knew that...
...golden arches stand tall over the competition in the huge fast-food industry, which rang up sales of $50.5 billion last year. McDonald's market share: 19%, in contrast to Burger King's 9% and Wendy's 5%, according to Analyst William Trainer, who follows the industry for Merrill Lynch. While the other hamburger chains posed fast-growing threats to McDonald's in past years, the rivals now have generally turned down the heat on their expansion...
...Masa, one of more than a score of private paramilitary groups that are waging war against the N.P.A. Every so often, pallbearers opened a coffin and showed the remains to onlookers, who craned their necks for a glimpse and then quickly looked away. As relatives wept and church bells rang, a spectator hoisted a banner that read HOW MANY MORE...
Roger Goldberger was relaxing at home after work when the phone rang. As soon as he answered, an unfamiliar voice blurted out a string of obscenities, then the caller hung up. Goldberger, a department-store manager in Harrisburg, Pa., calmly pressed *69 on his telephone, triggering an automatic return of the call. A phone rang; the same male voice answered. "You just called my house, and I don't appreciate what you said!" shouted Goldberger. The stunned teenager mumbled an apology and then asked, "How did you know it was me?" "It was easy," Goldberger replied. "My telephone is smarter...