Word: classing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...recognizes "the economic value of improving the physical appearance of the city," Miller says, adding that art, however, "has a value of its own." By bringing the city together in a celebration and fostering good relations between different racial, ethnic and class groups, the river festival and citywide arts provide "a means to an end," she adds...
Shifts in demographics are by their nature slow. Cantabrigians will not wake up one morning to find all the Irish and Italian working-class residents leaving and a wave of laser technicians and econometricians moving in. But in a city where voters go to the polls only once every two years, and where the switch of one seat on the City Council would mean control of City Hall, the changes in power could literally occur overnight. They have before--Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci, the senior member of the City Council, says at least twice in the city's history...
...struggling to recover its longtime merchandising prowess. After flirting with fashion and trying to outdiscount the discounters, the nation's largest retailer (1979 sales: $17.5 billion) is returning to its tried and true, highly successful selling formula: aiming straight for the charge accounts of America's middle class. The artist picked to give Sears its beautiful new visage is Edward Brennan, 46, who was installed earlier this month as the second youngest president in the firm's 94-year history...
...million charge customers despite Washington's demands for credit restraints. Merchandising experts say that the firm may eventually have to drop its policy of refusing to stock little besides its own brands. Sears still resists selling national labels like Levi's or Gloria Vanderbilt, which middle-class customers now demand...
...unwanted moral luggage, lets talent travel lightly and opens it to the histrionic." He speculates on the Edwardians' taste for the novels of George Meredith, for satire and high comedy: "One can see why: an age of surfeit had arrived. The lives of the upper classes were both enlivened and desiccated by what seems to have been a continuous diet of lobster and champagne-a diet well-suited in its after-effects to the stimulation of malice." His description of Haggard captures both an individual and a class: "Like many popular bestsellers, he was a very sad and solemn...