Word: secondhand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sartorially, Ginsberg meets his fellow citizens halfway: sports jackets, slacks, shirts and ties bought secondhand at the Salvation Army. His $260-a- month apartment in Manhattan's run-down East Village is furnished in Early Struggling Artist: an assortment of old tables and chairs, aging appliances and, for some reason having to do with a previous renovation, a kitchen sink in the living room. The walk-up tenement has no working front bell. To enter, a visitor must call up from the sidewalk and wait for the poet to throw down a key rolled up in a sock...
Researchers at the more traditional think tanks sometimes speak disdainfully of Heritage's emphasis on lobbying and publicity. Feulner admits that the more deliberative institutions produce most of the genuinely original research in public policymaking. Says he: "We're secondhand dealers in ideas." Yet even liberals in Washington acknowledge, sometimes ruefully, that Heritage's mostly young analysts (the staff of 105 includes 53 professionals) are extremely effective at getting across their point of view. "That feisty new kid on the conservative block" is the kudo offered by one Heritage fan. His name: Ronald Reagan...
...translate to DM 2,093; today's base pay of $1,437.60 will get DM 4,098. The soldiers have been quick to respond to the hike in local purchasing power: they spent nearly $60 million last year on video equipment, and new BMWs and Porsches have replaced secondhand cars in many mili tary parking lots. Says Specialist 4 Steven Frank of the 8th Infantry Division: "Guys are coming in on Friday and saying 'Get showered, we're going to Paris for the weekend.' We can afford...
...hope of racking up enough mileage to earn free tickets to exotic locations. Yet roughly half of such customers fail to use the awards they receive. As a result, these coupons have become a hot new commodity, bought and sold by at least a dozen upstart brokers. The secondhand awards often present a sizable saving for the purchaser, even after the broker has taken a 20% to 40% commission. For instance, one broker was recently offering roundtrip, first-class tickets from New York City to Los Angeles, normally...
...take an active role in creating the clothes that she wears so well. Last week Brinkley was in Manhattan at the gala "label cutting" for her own Russ Togs line of swim and sport clothes due in department stores this fall. Wearing a man's pajama shirt and secondhand tuxedo jacket plus knit cotton pants she designed herself, Brinkley wants "to design clothes that are comfortable. These are not going to be skimpy bathing suits cut up to here. These are suits my mom can wear too." Considerate dads might want to go out and buy their wives...