Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democratic quartet leading the field in Iowa shares one characteristic: an admirable ability to endure adversity. Babbitt, for example, is almost a model of humor and grace in the face of an indifferent electorate. And Simon survived a rocky start-up phase in mid-1987 when his campaign was derided as little more than an ego trip to nowhere. Like Dole, his initial campaign organization was a study in amateurish chaos, but Simon also belatedly displayed the grit necessary to move aside longtime friends in favor of political professionals...
...these assessments, both positive and negative, are merely first-take snapshots of how the candidates would perform as President. That is the one defense of the long and laborious campaign: the voters -- and, yes, the press -- keep on learning. And now the time has come to start winnowing the field as the all-too-fast caucus and primary season begins in earnest next week...
While the idea of a store so big seems quintessentially American, the idea for hypermarkets comes from France. A small-town haberdasher and a grocer, taking advantage of their country's lack of American-style supermarkets, teamed up in 1960 to start the first hypermarket at an intersection just outside Annecy, in the foothills of the Alps. They named their store Carrefour, the French word for crossroads, and it was an instant success. Their prices were so low that shoppers expected them to go out of business, a rumor they gleefully perpetuated by keeping their front windows coated with whitewash...
...Gallery Owner Reese Palley. "The minute I saw his work," says Palley, "I knew that this was the product of a person with an innate understanding of nature." Palley urged Stankard to give up his job and concentrate on fashioning flowers. He would pay him $250 a week to start; in return he would have first refusal on Stankard's work. "What should I do?" Stankard asked his wife Pat. Her reply: Wait for two weeks after the birth of their fourth child. Then do it. The association was to last five years, and Palley was a demanding master: Stankard...
Some commentators predicted that Lacroix was too extreme and too irreverent to last, but he has only strengthened his position. Frustrated at Patou's reluctance to start a ready-to-wear line, he abruptly left in 1987, chased by a $13.1 million lawsuit. With Jean-Jacques Picart, a close friend on the business side of Patou, he set up his own house, backed by Agache, the conglomerate that also owns Dior...