Word: everly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Sales are running below expectations, and jittery merchants--most of whom make a quarter of their annual sales during this critical time--are slashing prices earlier than ever before. Apart from the Barbie Volkswagen and the Sony PlayStation 2 game machine, there aren't many must-have items. And when consumers do spend, it is increasingly for services--such as trips, parties or a day at the spa--not for old-fashioned goods. "Shopping as bingeing is over now," says Kurt Barnard of Barnard's Retail Trend Report. "Consumers won't buy frivolously or on a whim. They...
...help make that picture-perfect holiday happen, I volunteered this year to bake cinnamon buns for Christmas brunch. Since the only buns I've ever made are the ones that come in a pop-open can, I decided to log on to the Web for some fresh ideas...
...Broadway, where everyone gave Charlton Heston a cold, dead hand. Suddenly Barbra Streisand got up onstage and yelled, "Do you know what it is to have to walk around in high heels and sing 35 songs a night, to have to diet and get into those dresses?" Do I ever...
There are two things you have to say about Jackson Pollock: he figured out a way to paint as no one before him ever had, and he was, as a human being, a shambles--drunken, depressed, disloyal and near to moronically inarticulate. The only way to approach his short and miserable life (he died in a possibly suicidal car crash at age 44) is as an insoluble mystery, and that's precisely what Harris, the star, director and co-producer of Pollock, does...
...gross domestic product. But the economy is slowing so fast that it feels like a recession. Six months ago, real GDP was growing at a 5.6% annual rate. Goldman Sachs estimates that it will slow to 2.7% this quarter and 1.5% next. That's one of the fastest decelerations ever. Inflation is low, so the Fed has room to cut rates and maybe stave off anything terrible. Still, it looks like lean times ahead...