Word: bosse
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sunny October afternoon, the normally teeming streets of the fashionable district of Nisantasi are oddly quiet. The occasional tourist couple wanders by. Behind elegant windows advertising new autumn collections, plush stores like Hugo Boss, Louis Vuitton and Armani are empty. Groups of sales attendants hover nervously by the entrance. "Business is terrible," says the director of one popular U.S. luxury label. "We hoped it would pick up after Ramadan, but it hasn't. Nobody wants to lose face by officially going on sale in October because it's unheard of, but in-store most labels are offering...
...number of registrations. I’ll probably put in your name twice; it’s not like anyone reads these things anyway. But remember sir, now that Sarah’s winking at Joe the Plumber, we’re going to show her who is boss on November 4th, right...
...banking system undergoes its most wrenching overhaul in 70 years, Bair, chairwoman of the FDIC, has become the voice of ordinary passbook holders. Bair was front and center with Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Fed boss Ben Bernanke when they announced plans to recapitalize the U.S. banking industry. But the three aren't always in perfect alignment. As guarantor of Americans' $4.5 trillion in deposits spread around in some 8,500 U.S. banks, Bair is trying to balance both the needs of depositors like the storied Mrs. Lobsiger and those of big-name players like Citigroup who help generate much...
...After hearing that her boss is looking to replace her, Lu Qingmin quits her job in a factory's human resources department: "In August 2004, two months after she arrived, Min collected her pay and left without telling anyone... she spent the night in a hotel near her factory; while she slept, someone broke the lock on her door. The thief took nine hundred yuan [about $130] and Min's mobile phone, the only place where she had stored the numbers of everyone she knew in the city: the ex-colleague who was her only link...
...right; no way. Don’t know why I even had the thought. Anyway, now we gotta right the ship: no more lying, no more threatening, and no more baby insinuations. We’re better than that.” “C’mon, boss, one last try: I’m getting good with Photoshop after that Iraq stuff. We could maybe throw together a birth certificate that says Bill Ayers fathered John McCain’s black baby with Michelle Obama. How’s that for a silver bullet...