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Elsewhere, analysts talk less ebulliently of a we-survived psychology. But it amounts to the same thing: a feeling that the recession is far enough in the past that the threat to people who have hung onto their jobs is over; they can unzip their wallets. Richard Outcalt, president of Seattle-based Outcalt & Johnson Retail Strategists, puts it simply: "There's strong evidence now that the gloom and doom is dead. It just got boring." In New York City, Nancy Few-Smith, a former vice president of New York Telephone who describes herself as a part-time travel agent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Needs a Boom? | 12/13/1993 | See Source »

...something's wrong; suddenly the line isn't moving. Prim spots the problem right away: He's looking at that sixth person, the one who's stopped the flow of traffic as he struggles to unzip a weighty backpack...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Checking You Out | 4/4/1992 | See Source »

...deviousness, the bullying and the lying, which ultimately consumed Johnson, are reported so graphically in some passages that a reader must wonder how Califano or any other person could work for such a tyrant. "Unzip your fly," L.B.J. challenged Califano, when the aide believed he had cut a good deal with Arkansas' wily Senator John McClellan. "There's nothing there. John McClellan just cut it off with a razor so sharp you didn't even notice it." Califano still marvels over seeing Johnson crony Abe Fortas, by then a Supreme Court Justice, counsel the President on how the government should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bully for A Good Cause | 12/30/1991 | See Source »

...student said the man exposed himself to her as she passed the bushes. "I saw the man take off his jacket, unzip his pants, and masturbate in front of me," she said...

Author: By Robin Kolodny, | Title: Grad Students Report Indecent Exposure | 11/2/1991 | See Source »

...Cambridge University had beaten out some of the giants of biochemistry, including Caltech's future Nobel prizewinner, Linus Pauling. More important, in discovering DNA's now famous double-helical, or spiral-staircase, architecture, they also suggested how the magic molecule works: the two sides of the helix unzip, so that each can act as a template for making an exact copy of the original genetic material. Thus Watson and Crick not only described the three-dimensional geometry of DNA, which forms the genes in all living things, but also showed how it passes its message from one generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Commemorating a Revolution | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

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