Word: valleyspeak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...process of assimilation, while perhaps a bit more hesitant and stressful than at times in the past, still marches on. It might skip a generation, revealing itself eventually, for instance, in the pure Valleyspeak ; of a young Chinese Californian. More often than ever before, though, assimilation in the 1990s arrives through the ultimate cultural immersion of interethnic marriage. In today's diverse America, such marriages are occurring at triple the rate of two decades...
...Seal's secret: trendy merchandise is constantly turned over, while employees are handed weekly bonuses to help push it out the door. The chain's concept is "multigenerational," which in plain Valleyspeak means that gum- snapping, Walkman-toting ingenues and their miniskirted moms can sport the same fashions, from flowered denim shorts to psychedelic bikinis. "We don't just ask our customers what they want," points out Chilvers. "We spend a tremendous amount of time in the malls, in our competitors' stores. I hang around and watch what they buy, what they...
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