Word: clad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After his half-hour wait in the Business School parking lot, Joe Freshman, neatly clad in Weejuns and Cheenos, eagerly pulls the family's Ford up in front of Wigglesworth. He visits the superintendant, fumbles with the key to his entry, and then--apprehensively--unlocks the door to his suite...
...Bikini-clad women sipping vodka on an ocean liner in the Caribbean. Crates of computers being unloaded in Hong Kong harbor. A cruise ship offering three- month tours with elegant accommodations. These are not the images people conjure up when they think of the Soviet menace. But the Soviet Union's fleet of about 2,500 merchant ships, now the world's sixth largest, has been invading both cargo and cruise markets around the world, underbidding competitors by 40% and more. In the past two decades, the Soviet Union has doubled the number of its ships and tripled the tonnage...
Back in the days when men drank dry martinis and smoked unfiltered cigarettes with abandon, ogling the scantily clad, buxom Bunnies at the Playboy Club was a popular pastime. Times have changed. Playboy last week announced that when its flagship New York City club reopens in November, the employees will include male waiters, dubbed Rabbits. In an effort to lure female patrons, the ! company (fiscal 1985 sales: $192 million) hopes to hire "attractive and athletically built" men. Company officials refuse to say how the Rabbits will be dressed but insist that they will keep their pants on. Among the current...
...Disney-style amusement park for southern Peking. The next, General Motors delivers a fleet of 20 Cadillac limousines to be used by visiting businessmen. Last April, party officials, after solemnly viewing videotapes of the British rock group Wham!, allowed the band to appear in Peking, complete with scantily clad go-go dancers and pelvis-thrusting vocalist. A golf course is scheduled to open next May in the historic Valley of the Ming Tombs, with prospects of ski slopes, a racetrack and a hotel to be built nearby...
...Long hair and flowered shirts are definitely out," adds Grossman, who, neatly shorn and clad in a pinstripe suit, directed events from a desk in the plush lobby of the headquarters of Harvard's Governing Boards during the day-long...