Word: totaled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...choice to move to the River, would not take it. Who had the most spirit at Annenberg while welcoming the first-years? Currier, Pforzheimer and Cabot clearly outdid the rest of the houses in sheer number and decibel level. Even though we comprise just one-fourth of the total upper-class population, the Quad had an equal number of representatives at Annenberg as the River houses combined. The feeling of bonding was genuine, not contrived...
...apparel, Nike is attempting to turn sweatshirts and shorts into real athletic equipment that it calls "total performance product." Its fabric is skinlike, a point being made by a series of ads that feature pictures of such star athletes as Michael Johnson, Scotty Pippin and Gabrielle Reece wearing not so much as a sock...
Fortunately for Nike, the brand is not so controversial in the rest of the world, where most of its growth lies. Last year sales outside the U.S. increased 49%, and represent about 38% of the total. Like Coca-Cola, Nike measures purchases per capita per country. In the U.S. it's more than $20, but in the rest of the world the figure is $6 or $7, and as little as $2 or $3 in Germany, home of Adidas and Puma. That's why Nike has made soccer the focus of an unprecedented assault. The logic is simple. Soccer...
...indeed? Part of the charm of the cosmically successful movie Titanic is the period costume, period extravagance, period class prejudice. An audience can enjoy these at a distance. Oddly, however, of all the period mores in the film, the old maritime tradition of "women and children first" enjoys total acceptance by modern audiences. Listen to the booing and hissing at the onscreen heavies who try to sneak on with--or ahead of--the ladies...
...They include a reappearance of the word deflation in serious discussions of U.S. prices for the first time in decades, as well as the possibility of a string of American budget surpluses unmatched since the Roaring Twenties--and the beginnings of a vigorous debate about whether this warrants a total overhaul of the U.S. tax code. In combination--or conflict--these forces make 1998 look anything but ho-hum and a lot more like the start of a journey into an unexplored world...