Word: chain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pioneer of stockings-on-the-run is an ex-secretary in London named Sophie Mirman, who opened her first Sock Shop in 1983 at the busy Knightsbridge Underground station. Her philosophy: "Socks should be as easy to buy as a newspaper." Since then her Sock Shop chain has expanded to 118 outlets in Britain, France, Belgium and the U.S. Her most famous customer: Princess Diana...
While Sock Shop buys most of its wares from manufacturers, the four-store Sock Express chain in Manhattan has its own factory. Company founder Barton Weiss favors socks with rhinestones, zippers and buttons, all of which would be difficult for a mass manufacturer to produce. Weiss gets around the problem by employing 28 skilled costume builders to cut fabrics and put his socks + together. "I can have an idea tonight and have it in the stores tomorrow," he boasts. Growing curbside competition is proving a spur to innovation. One of the most popular styles in California is an anklet adorned...
...talking about the secretary of interior, we're talking about someone next to the president at the very top of the nuclear chain of command," Nunn said...
Fear of disappointing himself or others remains a durable chain to his childhood. His conservative, demanding father Morton followed his own sire into the New England textile industry. Morton expected the oldest of his four children to do the same. Jeff Forbes, Darman's Harvard roommate, recalls the genetic imprint: "Dick's father was extremely disciplined, with a view that life was very real and very earnest. Dick took that from...
...team gambled and failed in a multibillion-dollar investment in mortgage-backed securities. When the Bank Board went looking for help again, it eventually decided to grant exclusive bargaining rights to the Robert M. Bass Group, which had already taken over such properties as the Westin hotel chain and Bell & Howell...