Word: suggest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...understated wares with loads of charming and inventive doodads, many of them for sale. Rather than merely display a blazer or a skirt, he likes to present a whole pile of goodies. The side tables in Lauren displays are nearly always covered with rows of framed pictures that suggest comfortable surroundings of family and tradition. Lauren's home-furnishing arrangements fairly gush with conspicuous consumption: eight pillows on a bed, all with ruffles and contrasting fabrics. Lauren hopes that customers will buy the whole package, in effect trusting his ability to mix and match. Apparently they often do. Says Cheryl...
...high-risk groups, particularly homosexuals, are feeling an increasing employment chill. Physician Leon Warshaw, executive director of the New York Business Group on Health, decries the trend. Says he: "Fear of AIDS is a front for an unreasoning homophobia. People who have the mannerisms or appearance or careers that suggest they might be gay -- whether they are or not -- become a source of concern for employers...
...Archaeopteryx has apparently been dethroned by a specimen named Protoavis ("first bird"), which lived 75 million years before Archaeopteryx. Last week's announcement was based on two fragmentary fossil skeletons found in the arid badlands of western Texas in 1984 by Texas Tech University Paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee. They suggest that Protoavis was a contemporary of the earliest dinosaurs. "If the identification is correct," says Yale Paleobiologist John Ostrom, who has examined the crow-size remains, "it has to send us back to the drawing board...
...strong pack instincts, an attribute that made attachment to early human groups relatively easy. Cats are highly territorial, making them suitable pets for the permanently settled. Both species share the desirable trait of eliminating their wastes outside their dens. Less tangible is the "cute response." Serpell's sources suggest that the pudgy features of all young mammals elicit sympathetic and nurturing reactions from adults...
...only guess at the psychological effects of names (What happens when that girl Howard reaches an age to be interested in other Howards?), but it seems reasonable to suggest that a boy named John will grow up differently from one named Cuthbert. He is less likely to be beaten up by his schoolmates, for one thing. Fashions change, though, as Gertrude gives way to Marilyn, and Marilyn to Debbie; a name that would have seemed weird a generation ago, like Kimberly, becomes a cliche...