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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth abundance with increase; nor he that loveth status with a lifetime Harvard Club membership. This is also vanity...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: The Vanitas of Veritas | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

Rule No. 1: Understand your market. His stores, he says, sell "cheap and tacky products." Rule No. 2: Form clear quality goals. "We also do cut-glass sherry decanters complete with six glasses on a silver-plated tray -- that your butler can serve you drinks on -- all for 4.95 pounds (($8.73)). People say, 'How can you sell this for such a low price?' I say because it is total crap." Rule No. 3: Evaluate how your product stacks up against all the competition. "We even sell a pair of earrings for under 1 pound (($1.76)), which is cheaper than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAILING Sterling Advice | 5/6/1991 | See Source »

Hale offered a variety of strategies for coping with this shortfall, ranging from canceling the ATF and replacing it with an upgraded (but still not stealthy) version of the existing F-15s to ordering only a handful of ATFs and deploying them in a small force of killer fighters: "silver bullets" in the jargon of the field. Congressman Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, had earlier put forward a compromise that would continue research on the ATF but hold off on procurement, staying for now with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is This Plane Necessary? | 5/6/1991 | See Source »

...night scores of flashy cars and motorcycles cruise in front of the local Hardee's in a scene that looks like the gulf version of American Graffiti. A dozen teenagers break-dance to booming rap music that pours out of the open hatchback of a silver Renault 5 with a U.S. flag painted on its rear window. Yet even this simple celebration brings a reminder of the tension between tradition and change that is testing Kuwait. Passing the scene, a fundamentalist youth mutters, "Islam doesn't need discotheques...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kuwait Life Under a Cloud | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

Essentially, tarpon are huge archaic herring. In Florida they regularly grow to 150 lbs. (the world record on fly is 188 lbs.), but in Belize they are smaller, up to about 100 lbs. They are beautiful creatures, sheathed in scales the size of silver dollars, glittering, pugnacious, spooky and inedible: the only thing you can do with a tarpon, in the unlikely event that you catch it, ) is let it go. But as a rule you have no choice about letting a tarpon go. It just goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blissing Out in Balmy Belize | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

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