Word: buys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Money can't buy you love, but this week, it can buy Harvard students a variety of flowers and singing telegrams...
...have to make it as easy to buy a handgun as it is to buy bubble gum or tuna fish," she said...
Warren S. Berg '44 remembers when the company invested $65,000 to buy ice cream trucks for the project. "That was one of the real risks. The students made money, but we lost in the long haul because we were [up against] professionals," says Berg, who was chairman of the HSA Board of Directors from the company's inception until...
Lacroix's casual panache is what draws many young clients. Picart says many may buy only one outfit, and it may be a gift from a relative. The house does a big wedding business. In fact, Lacroix's first garment under his own logo was for the marriage of Pia de Brantes, a well-connected Paris publicist. What she got was a bright pink snap-together gown: the skirt and sleeves came off after the solemnities to reveal a hot little disco number...
Straus shuns the bureaucratic style of those merged entities resulting from takeovers by huge conglomerates that demand a fast return on their investment. He works in close contact with his employees. When the air conditioning broke down, he dashed out to buy Good Humors for the entire staff. Such gestures serve as an amusing reminder that the publisher is descended from the Guggenheims and the Strauses, old East Coast families noted for their philanthropic activities. Straus put up $50,000 to help start FS&G after World War II. He insists that he does not subsidize the company with...