Word: recordability
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Another supporter of the prodemocracy movement spoke out against Bush's decision, saying that China's receiving most-favored-nation status should be contingent on its human rights record...
Imagine shaving off almost three seconds off your best time in a race, running faster than the old meet record and not winning...
...magazine cover or grumbling about a choice of stories. Meetings with him can take on the character of interrogation, and they often occur at disquietingly early hours: Newhouse generally starts his office day at 4 a.m. Even the supporters among his employees -- and they are far fewer off the record than on -- describe him as exacting and occasionally fierce. One new editor was sternly rebuked after having lunch at the Four Seasons, not for going to that expensive Manhattan eating gallery but for allowing himself to be seated in a less fashionable part of the restaurant and thereby impugning...
...Manhattan retailer, thinks displaced brokers would have a knack for peddling $1,000 suits on Fifth Avenue. To staff a new men's store, Bergdorf courted former financial pitchmen in a help-wanted ad in the Wall Street Journal: "From brokering to banking, if you've a proven track record in sales, the new Bergdorf Goodman Men's Store offers a career opportunity that is at once exciting and rewarding." Bergdorf says it swiftly received more than 100 applications for the jobs, which can reward persuasive salesmen with commissions that exceed $100,000 a year. Such incomes should help keep...
...public used to be more tolerant of paraphernalia. In the 1970s it was sold openly in record stores and marketed in magazines and on radio. "Paraphernalia," noted the New York Times in 1976, "is no longer a hippie phenomenon, but a business for young capitalists." By 1980 some 15,000 head shops in the U.S. were doing at least $1 billion in sales. Meanwhile, vials and pipes made in Pacific Rim countries were imported with relative impunity...