Word: rides
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...city curbs. The chunky two-wheeler, manufactured by Californian Michael Sinyard in 1981, has helped transform the % U.S. bicycle industry from a sleepy business to a $3.5 billion family-sport industry as millions of Americans mount up. Sinyard's goal: "Durability and comfort, a bike that is easy to ride...
...both of which they share with friends. Neither has a taste for fancy clothes, expensive cars or other such trappings of success. In fact, Sayles regularly travels to New York City and back by bus, often writing on a lined yellow pad while waiting in the station for his ride. Just another working stiff on his commute...
...show, garnering high ratings in its third season on HBO, demonstrates another quality rare in TV: it is improving with age. Introduced by a cackling, skeletal "crypt keeper," the stories barrel along with logic-bending abandon; even when the ending fizzles (a frequent problem), getting there is a wild ride. Among the summer's highlights so far: Beau Bridges and Tony Goldwyn as brothers who trade sadistic practical jokes in a morgue, Malcolm McDowell as a soft-hearted vampire who opts for safe sustenance by raiding the local blood bank, and Jon Lovitz as a sad-sack actor who auditions...
...March the athletic- shoe maker left the Boston agency and gave part of the $40 million account back to Chiat, which has produced such memorable ideas as the Eveready Energizer Bunny and Nissan's fantasy drives, in which a young man dreams of Christie Brinkley coming along for the ride...
...summer represents the "wind-chill factor," says Young & Rubicam chairman Peter Georgescu. Ad spending, which rose only 2.4% last year, to $128.6 billion, is expected to increase just 3.1% this year, according to McCann-Erickson's Robert Coen, the industry's leading forecaster. In order to cut costs and ride out the slump, Madison Avenue has trimmed hundreds of professionals from its ranks during the past year -- and the / cutbacks are far from over...