Word: droppingly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Steve the Tramp's grotesque villainy was a cruel attack on his unfortunate clients. Particularly incensed by the lurid resume that adorned Steve the Tramp's packaging, Rose launched a campaign to stamp out the tramp. He got his point across to Disney and Playmates, which have decided to drop the terrifying toy. But the move comes too late to recall the product from retailers' shelves before Christmas...
...smaller and there are more lunches than dinners, more wine than champagne. "It's chic to be prudent," says Michelle McQuaid of Ridgewell's Caterers. "Being rich in the '90s is not in style." Families are learning hard lessons in economics, and in discipline. One by one, items drop from the budget of a middle-class dream: cable TV, designer coffee, a winter vacation, credit cards. In the boom years of the decade, when no excess was too wretched, household debt grew about 50% faster than disposable income. "I really try to get us on a savings plan," says Sarah...
Even if they are not planning to sell, homeowners feel poorer when values drop. "The price of your house was your standard of value in the 1970s," says Kathryn Eickhoff, president of her own economics-research firm in New York. "You couldn't make money in the stock market, but you knew your house would go up in value. But now that confidence is being tested, and people feel vulnerable...
Least-Sparkling Water It wasn't Perrier's year. First, lab tests found traces of benzene, a potential carcinogen, in samples of the green-bottled bubbly. Then the French government forced Perrier to drop the words naturally carbonated from its European labels. ("Naturally" had earlier been deemed a no-no in the U.S.) Evian has now supplanted Perrier as America's top-selling imported bottled water...
...About Feeling Good Two touchie-kissie-sweetie movies, Ghost and Pretty Woman, won worldwide success. Audiences who had tired of muscling in on the macho antics of Arnold and Sly instead cozied up to a couple of lame femme fantasies with morals no more profound than Shop Till You Drop (Pretty Woman) and Kiss the Corpse (Ghost...