Word: stored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mitigating the damage that these comments would otherwise have caused, was Mandela's tremendous store of political capital: he had enough of the stuff to make any other world figure envious. Still, many wondered, what could possibly have possessed the man to squander his hard-earned prestige when he was so quickly approaching the status of an icon? In the ensuing discourse, a number of explanations were proffered to account for the ANC leader's tactlessness...
...starts to explain his cause and the need for people to sign the petition. But it is all in vain. She pays no attention to his moving lips, her gaze instead locked on his Aqua Velva blue eyes. She breaks her stare only long enough to yell, "Watch the store!"--a curious request since she's the only employee on duty...
...crowd, hands stick out store receipts, corners of newspapers and blank checks for Baldwin's autograph. Most people, though, are having a hard time focusing on the issue. Baldwin spends a few minutes needling Arline and Arthur Hass on the merits of the petition. They sign, but the couple are not clear about what's going on. "I don't know. What's it for?" asks Arline. And some of those who think they know, well..."It's to get money from politics and put it into the environment," insists Velma Marotte. "More stars should get out and do this...
...harm they might cause. "If you have reason to believe that you are shortchanged on a single nutrient, you have to know what the risks are," she says. "That may require a consultation with a professional nutritionist, not a conversation with your neighbor, a chiropractor or a health-food-store employee." Now if only common sense came in a pill...
Sharing in that happiness is the home industry. Until the past two years, Williams-Sonoma, an upscale culinary store, thought its average customer was 42. But then it noticed more and more young people buying big-ticket items like turkey roasting pans instead of the expected disposable aluminum pans. The company introduced cookbooks on CD-ROM, anticipating moderate sales to middle-aged gourmands, but the discs blew out of the stores, toted by twentysomethings. Says the company's Maggipinto: "Now 26 is our emerging market, and as of this year we have begun seriously focusing on being on trend...