Word: boated
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...returned to Broadway as an autumnal star, headlining the French comedy Forty Carats (in a role that had been played by Julie Harris and Joan Fontaine). She signed up for a couple of stints in those employment agencies for geriatric actors, The Love Boat and Murder, She Wrote. (What, no Fantasy Island ?) According to IMDb, her last role was a Lady in Hotel in the Carrie Fisher TV movie, These Old Broads, which is famous in Hollywood gossip history as the production that brought Elizabeth Taylor and Debbie Reynolds back within spitting distance of each other, nearly a half century...
Suni Magyar never planned on owning a crafts shop. Busy with her reflexology business in Uganda's capital of Kampala, the Kenyan-born, British-educated Hungarian-Scot set up Banana Boat, her first tiny 2-sq-m shop, on a whim. "There were lots of expats living in the city with big houses, lots of wall space and nothing to put on them," explains Magyar. "Initially, I thought it would be quite fun to sell modern art prints." She was quickly inundated by customers looking for other home products and, since 2000, has combined her love of traditional local craftsmanship...
...Magyar's original shop has evolved into three cool and trendy Banana Boat store locations in Kampala, as well as an export business. With Banana Boat?a nickname for Ugandan canoes?thriving, the multitasking mother of two toddlers is now overseeing the building of a safari lodge in one of Uganda's national parks, while continuing to design new products for the shops. In the works: a range of bark-cloth finger puppets. tel: (256) 772 799 555; bananaboat@infocom.co.ug
...course, my duties are of a rather limited sort. I do not hold wide discretion in running practices, setting lineups, or, really, in much of anything. Nonetheless, my responsibilities differentiate me from the athletes in a way that I had not previously experienced: my position in the motor boat called a “launch,” while often as little as 10 feet away, feels quite a tad more distant...
...Well, maybe. But even if that's true, a bafflingly large number of businesses are missing the boat. Despite the growing demand for drug tests in sports and other fields, the percentage of employers with testing programs has dropped steadily since 1996, from 81% to 62% in 2004, according to the American Management Association, which sees the trend continuing...