Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Some seeming nonessentials, however, seem to remain much in demand. Says Lewis Katcher, a research director at the Sutro & Co. brokerage firm in San Francisco: "Yacht sales will remain strong but sailboats will be down," a sign that while millionaire boatowners remain secure weekend sailors are financially vulnerable. Then again, as always in recessionary times, women are continuing to buy cosmetics regardless of cost. At the fancy Georgette Klinger skin care salons in New York, Chicago, Beverly Hills and Bal Harbour, Fla., sales of treatments and assorted preparations have continued to rise at 20% per year. But this year, reports...
...saying that his aim is not to give service to customers, wages to workers, or taxes to governments, though all of that is necessary. "The objective," he intones, "is to reward those who make the business possible by investing their capital in it: the shareholders." That view might seem outrageous, were it not that customers give generally high marks to Citizens' service. Remarkable in the unglamorous utilities business, Citizens last year earned a walloping 19% after taxes on revenues of $108 million from sales of electricity, water, gas, telephone, and sewage services to some 500 communities in ten states...
They also seem to say Texas, home of the country's best bootmakers. At 85, Enid Justin, owner of the Nocona Boot Co., remains the feisty matriarch of the Lone-Star State bootmaking community. Back in 1925, when she founded her business, she cut and stitched the boots herself and peddled them all over Texas from her Model A Ford. Today her workers produce 1,500 pairs a day, though it still takes some 200 separate steps to make a single boot. Another oldtimer is T.C. ("Buck") Steiner, 79, a former rodeo star and owner of the Austin-based...
...attractiveness is a great advantage to men, but not to women. The beautiful and the plain spend about the same amount of time with men and report the same amount of satisfaction. The women who do best are those with average to good looks. Says Wheeler: "These borderline women seem very satisfied in their relationships with the opposite...
...that even Hugh Hefner would find it garish. Jamie's mom (Roberta Maxwell), meanwhile, is required to go into a burlesque rage at the mere mention of her ex-husband's name. Ross shows far more respect for the kids, who are so truthfully drawn that they seem to have wandered in from another movie. Still, credible grownups are needed if Rich Kids' conflicts are to have any meaning...