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...carried away when confronted with tempting prices. And many shoppers still rationalize luxury purchases as investments. In Santa Monica, Calif., the local Lexus dealer cannot keep the $40,000 Toyota sedans in stock. Customers say the car is worth much more than its sticker price. Posh shops on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills continue to be packed. But the days of wretched excess have passed for most consumers. Some of the same folks who dropped expensive brand names like credentials last year are impressing their friends by rattling off discount outlets and off-price brands...
Bush, too, took pride in the Southern heritageof his adopted hometown. Sunday night, Bushtreated five of the summit leaders to aTexas-style shindig that included a barbeque,armadillo racing, a rodeo and a performance of theGrand Ole Opry...
Foreign leaders seemed to take well to Bush'sSouthern hospitality. Kaifu waved his cowboy hatat the rodeo's cheering crowds, while Delorstapped his feet to the beat of the country andwestern music...
...California real estate. His family's holdings include the five-story building that housed Drexel's Beverly Hills offices, along with several adjacent structures. (Milken picked up extra cash by renting the buildings to Drexel for about $11.2 million from 1984 to 1988.) The complex at Wilshire Boulevard and Rodeo Drive now has an estimated value of roughly $85 million...
...former Evanista who pushed the legalization of Laetrile, the crackpot cancer cure, and secured a letter from Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor (a fellow Arizonan) erroneously citing legal precedents for the Christian-nation resolution. The most recent entrant is ex-Congressman Sam Steiger, a rodeo bulldogger, airplane wing walker, horse-race broadcaster, rancher and now electronic-equipment entrepreneur. He was convicted of extortion when he was an aide to Mecham, but it was overturned...