Word: droppingly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Suddenly, it is fashionable to pinch pennies. Washington socialites Frank and Jayne Ikard are not taking their annual grand tour of Italy this year. Instead they plan to drop in on friends in Montana. Beverly Hills matron Joan Gross last week was browsing at the Price Club, a discount warehouse in nearby Inglewood, alongside an Asian restaurateur shopping for kitchen supplies and a Hispanic family buying low-price food in bulk. Said Gross: "Conspicuous consumption...
...impetuous '80s are over. The shop-till-you-drop gilded decade of excess, Rolex, baby millionaires and their legions of wannabes has given way to a new age of moderation and caution. Dynasty, meet Roseanne. In its June survey, the Conference Board, which every month measures consumer confidence across the U.S., found people more worried than at any time since 1987. The economic shock therapy that began with the Crash of '87 and continues with the $500 billion savings and loan debacle has given Americans a new appreciation of limits...
Others laugh more heartily at this than Young does. The exact degree of Young's blackness has always been a matter of debate in and around the S.C.L.C. Nor does Lowery let the matter drop. "We were just over in Cape Town, where they have all these degrees of color -- whites, Indians, coloreds, blacks. I don't know just where I'd put you, Andy" -- with an appraising look at him across the dais -- "somewhere between white and Indian and colored...
...levels naturally drop over time; by age 60 about 30% of men produce little or none of the substance. Although researchers had long suspected that lower levels of growth hormone might play a role in the aging process, it was not until the late 1980s, when a synthetic form of HGH began to be mass- produced in the laboratory, that enough was available to test the hypothesis. Until then, nearly the entire supply of HGH, which was extracted in minuscule amounts from cadavers, was used to treat children suffering from dwarfism...
...team at the World Space Foundation in Pasadena, Calif. "In the first hour, we may zoom ahead and pick up a yard. In one day maybe 100 yards." But the acceleration would continue, ultimately resulting in speeds far in excess of 100,000 m.p.h. -- and without expending a drop of rocket fuel...