Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Similarly, buying top-price imports no longer seems so smart. Many U.S. products have regained their reputation for quality and value. U.S. sales of Porsches fell 69% from 1986 to 1989, from 30,471 to 9,479, though they recovered 19% during the first five months of this year. BMW's U.S. sales dropped 33% from 1986 to 1989, from 96,759 to 64,881 cars, and slipped an additional 10% in the first five months of this year...
Buying bargain imports, though, is smart, very smart. In Elizabeth, N.J., the grand opening of IKEA's 6.2-acre furniture store in May created nightmarish gridlock usually seen only for the nearby Giants football games. More than 25,000 eager shoppers heading for the Swedish-owned store jammed the New Jersey Turnpike, and 200 others camped in the parking lot overnight to get first crack at the firm's $39 bookcases, $7 rag rugs, $98 pine beds and other basic furnishings. Parents could drop off their children in a play area supervised by store employees before turning to serious shopping...
...Smart and savvy, the twentysomething group is the best-educated generation in U.S. history. A record 59% of 1988 high school graduates enrolled in college, compared with 49% in the previous decade. The lesson they have taken to heart: education is a means to an end, the ticket to a cherished middle-class life- style. "The saddest thing of all is that they don't have the quest to understand things, to understand themselves," says Alexander Astin, whose UCLA-based Higher Education Research Institute has been measuring changing attitudes among college freshman for 24 years...
Molly (Moore) and Sam (Patrick Swayze) are your typical Manhattan duo. They are smart, caring and gorgeous; they live in a fabulous loft. When they make love, to Bobby Hatfield's orgasmic rendition of Unchained Melody, the sex is so beautiful you could die from it. Too soon, Sam does die -- he is murdered -- in a plot twist that anyone can unravel in an eyewink. Now stranded between heaven and earth, he must use the gifts of a sassy psychic (Whoopi Goldberg) to alert Molly of threats to her life -- and, while he has her attention, to make mad pash...
...politics, of course, it's hard to make judgments from afar even about personality, let alone about character. Everything is so contrived. If that charming business a while back about hating broccoli wasn't the result of extensive focus-group testing, it might as well have been. Bush is smart enough to know it would play well. And we do know that he exaggerates things, like his love of country music. (The Bushes actually also listen to classical in the White House.) Ironically, Bush wins points for genuineness, even with cynics like me, for the hints of self- awareness...