Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike some takeover artists, Perelman has a reputation as a hands-on manager who tends to retain and operate the companies he captures rather than break them up. When Revlon embarked on an advertising campaign featuring portraits of "unforgettable women," Perelman took a personal interest in picking the models. Even for America's richest man, some tasks are just too important to delegate...
...exposed to soil, water or sunlight; currently, no more than 0.5% of all U.S. plastic products are degradable. But for the process to work, a certain amount of moisture must be present in the soil, and critics argue that landfills are not always moist enough for the plastic to break down. Even some trash that deteriorates can take years to do so. Says Jeanne Wirka, a solid-waste expert at Environmental Action in Washington: "There are newspapers that have been dug up in landfills that are 30 years old and still can be read." Another decided drawback to the degradable...
...When you think about what the Jews did as leaders in the civil rights movement, in the forefront of trying to break the barriers, how do you account for the abrasiveness between blacks and Jews...
...break the cycle of poverty? You can't just hand out money...
...floor to watch a group called the House of Extravaganza do its stuff. The dancers, dressed in outrageous outfits, wave their hands languorously in time with the music, suck in their cheeks, stare icily into space and strut as if they were high-fashion models on the runways. Forget break dancing. So long to hiphop. At the hottest clubs in Manhattan, on MTV and at Paris fashion shows, the ultra-hip are into vogueing...