Word: spending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Carol Inkley went shopping for a new car earlier this year, she faced a supply-side problem: a pending divorce had left her with little to spend and nothing to trade in. Inkley, a Chesterfield, Mo., interior-design coordinator, solved her dilemma by signing a four-year auto lease that avoided the hefty down payment a normal car loan would have required. Cost of the lease: $239.04 a month. She drove home in a new white Honda CRX complete with automatic transmission, air conditioning and AM-FM radio...
...only about $450 a month for the Porsche -- considerably less than the $800 a month he figures a conventional auto loan would cost him. Tom and Dede Spencer of Kirkwood, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis, decided to lease their 1987 Dodge Caravan for $367.50 a month. They can spend the money they would otherwise use for a car down payment for new carpeting and the delivery-room bills for their new baby...
...just Sam -- or Mr. Sam, if you must -- but people who have assessed his net worth call him America's richest man. He is Sam Walton, and the fortune he has amassed as founder and chairman of Wal-Mart Stores is estimated at $4.5 billion and growing. But Walton spends virtually no time counting his money, or even bothering to spend it. He is too busy as one of America's most restless and evangelical corporate leaders. Thanks to his uncanny ability to motivate employees and slash expenses, the chain of discount stores Walton started just 25 years...
Each week the knot of men who spend the day hanging out in the central plaza grows. The older ones, their heads invariably protected against the searing spring sun by white straw hats, mutter occasionally to one another, then lose themselves in the local paper. The younger ones, several of them wearing BORN IN THE U.S.A. T shirts, banter loudly and watch the girls go by. Their burgeoning numbers are the first sign that the flow of Mexicans seeking jobs and a better life in the U.S. is beginning to reverse itself. American cars with license plates from Illinois, California...
...like exotic flowers than a cosmic catastrophe. But the colors all have a quantitative meaning: areas colored red are ten times as dense as yellow ones, and yellow represents 100 times the density of blue. "People who are not involved in these calculations might wonder if we couldn't spend our time better doing science than making movies," Evans says. "What they don't understand is that the movies are necessary to the science...