Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plus A.B.T. salary to a relative. Her only real extravagance is an addiction to New York cabs; if her destination is more than four blocks away, Gelsey starts waving an arm. On the street she is indistinguishable from the thousands of women who have achieved thrift-shop eclecticism, a mildly deracinated New York look: jeans or slacks, boots or clogs, bulky sweater, dangling scarf, knit...
...Great Britain, though, there was shop-floor cheering at the factories of Rolls-Royce, whose advanced RB.211 engines will power Pan Am's TriStars. To Rolls, Pan Am's initial order means $218.5 million in sales and an even richer psychological reward. Start-up costs for the RB.211 pushed the famous automaker into bankruptcy and its jet-engine operation into nationalization in 1971. Sir Kenneth Keith, 61, chairman of Rolls-Royce Ltd., believes that the future of the RB.211 program has been enhanced by the Pan Am deal. Said he: "It has been a cliffhanger. Six months...
...retired amateur golfers wearing CAT-Deisel hats turned their heads and smiled with bare tolerance at the sexy young "thang," cast some bawdy aspersions, and returned their thoughts to the giant plastic orange propped up over the citrus fruit shop. We had stopped at "The Orange Ring...
...simple folklore that most small appliances are not as sturdily made as they used to be, or that getting defective ones repaired can be a multi-Excedrin headache. Says John Lavezzo, who has maintained a one-man, two-room, three-telephone Fix-It Shop in Boston for 39 years: "Today they don't want you to repair things. They want you to buy'em, use'em and throw'em away." He and other seasoned repairmen say that the substitution of brittle plastics for metal makes many machines more breakdown-prone, and they blame some...
...Even big department stores, such as Macy's in New York City and Hudson's in Detroit, treat conked-out appliances like leprosy cases. As a result, many frustrated owners simply stash away the mute, inoperable machines like dirty clothes until they have enough to fill a shopping bag and take to a good repair shop-if they can find...