Word: carpetting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks ago, the Sotheby's board flatly rejected a $90 million tender offer made by Marshall Cogan and Stephen Swid through their company, Knoll International Holdings. Based in Saddle Brook, N.J., Knoll is part of a conglomerate that makes office furniture and carpet backing. Echoing their management's disdain for the Americans, Sotheby's art experts have threatened to quit en masse if the takeover occurs...
...they got high: they "free-based," breathing a distilled cocaine vapor, Phil alone all night with his glass water pipe and thimble of coke, Rita in another room with hers. In the mornings, Phil and Rita got back together, down on all fours, scratching and picking at the carpet for any stray grains of coke...
Such virgin territory may not exist. At a pair of Houston carpet stores, the former manager says that the owners, "two family men in three-piece suits," gave cocaine to employees who would work 18-hour shifts. Cocaine, in fact, is dangerously well suited to sales jobs. "You can do a lot of selling, a lot of talking when you're on cocaine," says Dana, 28, a South Florida man who would snort as much as seven grams (about a quarter of an ounce) a day while selling ? and to finance his habit, stealing ? building materials. "I didn...
That happy circumstance has befallen Slab Boys, a burst of bitter memory from Scottish Playwright John Byrne about the hopeless nights and dreamless days of young men who grind dyes in the "slab room" of a carpet factory near Glasgow. When first produced in New York, off-Broadway in 1980, the play seemed a programmatic denunciation of the social order, as personified by two pompous functionaries and by a blazered young prig who was passing through the slab room on his foreordained...
John Paul's visits to Guatemala, Honduras, Belize and Haiti drew enthusiastic crowds in the hundreds of thousands. Laboring well into the night, Guatemalans laid an 81A -mile carpet of colored sawdust and grass, decorated with pictures of doves and brilliant floral designs for the papal motorcade...