Word: barbering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whole image and way of doing business. Many companies help their franchisees with almost every aspect of the operation. Says Stanley Williams, assistant director of communications for the Washington-based International Franchise Association: "The typical person starting a small business may be a good mechanic, cook or barber, but he doesn't know how to pick a location, buy supplies, hire and train workers and do his taxes. Franchising supplies this expertise...
...hatchet wielder is the World Bank's new president, former Republican Congressman Barber Conable, who took office a year ago. Last week Conable was facing a revolt of staff members, who lodged a formal complaint with the bank's administrative tribunal, a seven-member body of distinguished jurists from around the world. "We have a lot of worried and unhappy people here at the bank," says Christopher Redfern, chairman of the World Bank Staff Association. The 75% of the employees who are from abroad are especially nervous. Reason: some of those laid off by the bank could lose their visas...
...clips his words in the same brusque spirit his barber clips his crew cut. He wears a suit he must have found at a time warp's going-out-of-business sale, smokes unfiltered cigarettes and eats chili dogs as if there were no radicchio. He believes in virginity, the 55-m.p.h. speed limit and that old- time religion. Welcome back, Sergeant Joe Friday...
Since he reportedly received several death threats this year, North has been protected around the clock by Navy guards. Two guards, sometimes three, escort him on his weekly visit to the barber. They were in tow when North went to his daughter's high school graduation last month. North sat in the back of the hall, causing something of a stir. Afterward, many of the parents offered him best wishes and asked him to pose for pictures...
...Here, only death looks luscious: gunfire makes a gutted warehouse flare into brilliant orange, and the blood of strafed civilians waters the countryside, turning it into poppy fields. The drama is desaturated too. The soldiers have no ideals to defend, just their asses; the accompanying music is not Samuel Barber but inane party rock of the '60s like Wooly Bully and Surfin' Bird. In this second section the movie becomes a notebook of anecdotes, always compelling, but rarely propelling the story toward its climax. Unlike Oliver Stone's Platoon, with which it will unfortunately be compared, Kubrick's film does...