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Cell phones became merely the emblem of the extravagance to which the city folk so recklessly surrendered. Spur-of-the-moment meals at expensive restaurants and $100 water cooler rentals from HSA came as naturally as the phrase, “I’m blowing up.” But Dartboard is not cool enough to blow up. Paying monthly fees is not what Dartboard had in mind when he imagined getting a B.A. So Dartboard gives up his aspirations of joining the aristocratic majority of cell phone possessors and reluctantly endures his perpetual lowliness. Maybe it?...
...what’s up,” or even “yo” to remind them that a bond based solely on awkward pleasantries can withstand the test of time, or at least a summer. But, alas, fate has dealt a harsh blow to your once cordial relationship—this former member of the elite group that merits your “fly-by hi” doesn’t register even a glimmer of recognition as you pass by. Not only do they not know who you are, they seem not to even hear...
...exchange, it has trounced internal performance targets, which center on things like trading volume and market share. How the exchange measures up against its predetermined targets heavily influences annual bonuses. A typical company will reach its performance targets less than 75% of the time and only rarely blow through them by a wide margin, says Pearl Meyer, an executive compensation consultant. Yet since Grasso took over in 1995, the exchange has far exceeded its targets every year, documents show. That suggests the targets are a lay-up, Meyer says. Frank Ashen, executive vice president of human resources at the exchange...
Maybe we can. Looked at now, his pictures seem like late aftershocks of fascism. They just happened to blow up in the pages of Vogue. Newton's memoir all but laughs off the worst of Nazism, but leaf through his saw-toothed magazine work or climb the barbed wire of White Women, his first, unforgettable photo book, and you find yourself remembering what D.H. Lawrence said of Herman Melville: "Choosingly, he was looking for paradise. Unchoosingly, he was mad with hatred of the world." The Helmut Newton we meet in Autobiography is the one looking for paradise...
Afraid of receiving a crushing blow, Crusader senior wideout Ari Confesor pulled up while running his route to avoid finishing a collision course with Balestracci’s shoulders plowing into his chest...