Word: household
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...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 Frazier, who lives with her husband Richard in Idyllwild, Calif. "We want to start a family someday, and it's getting harder and harder with food prices, car loans, interest payments and utilities...
...economy tumbles into recession, preserving the planet's air, land and water is in danger of losing its place among the most pressing issues of the day. It's not that last April's Earth Day has been forgotten already: more and more people are recycling household waste, toting reusable shopping bags to stores and planting trees in their backyards. And after more than a decade of debate, Congress finally overhauled the Clean Air Act this fall. But these encouraging steps hardly begin to attack the most ominous threats to the environment, such as deforestation and ! global warming...
...Looters constantly prowled the building. Most of the 450 apartments had been vacated in a hurry and were still full of household goods. It was like a big store. To hear a sudden pounding on the front door was terrifying. We had towels stuffed along the door bottoms to help muffle inside sounds. And we laid small rugs in front of the doors to let us tiptoe close and look out through glass peepholes. We taped over the peepholes. In each tape we made a tiny opening with a pin, like a camera, so we could see out but remain...
...long-distance telephone system to NCR's worldwide network of cash registers and ATMs. That would give AT&T significant entree into the exploding business of processing transactions for retailing and financial-services firms. And it fits into AT& T's dream for the 21st century: to wire every household for computerized shopping services...
...banister. Christmas ornaments are strewn about the floor like little land mines, a blowtorch becomes a flamethrower, and a hot iron is transformed into a ballistic missile. Home Alone director Chris Columbus notes that all the dirty tricks can be rigged up by a 10-year- old with simple household supplies, and all have what he calls "kid logic...