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...conservative, casual and inexpensive--no neon, no garish patterns that you can't adjust to in a few minutes, a few stripes, plaids in shorts, maybe a funky belt or snazzy pair of socks, but nothing that would ever seem threatening to a high school principal. Gapified clothes are crisp twill pants, slightly tapered jeans, solidcolor turtlenecks, soft button-down shirts in softer colors. You know what they are. You are wearing some...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The GAPification of America | 11/12/1991 | See Source »

Federal mine inspector Jack (Black Jack) Massey says his payoffs began when he found a crisp $100 bill under his jacket in the backseat of his car after inspecting one of Nelson's mines. During the next several years, Massey says, Nelson gave him more than $8,000 in cash as well as knives, hams, turkeys and | season tickets to University of West Virginia football games. Massey's job was to inspect for electrical hazards, but instead of citing the mine for violations, he repaired problems and was paid by the mining company for the work. In February 1990 federal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor The Curse of Coal | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

...Crisp sunshine and a field hockey game, a jog over to Ohiri Field to catch a bit of the men's soccer game, watching the mighty Crimson face the Bears, the Lions, the Quakers, the Tigers, the Big Green or the Big Red. Of course the epitome of the Ivy weekend is the last one of each season, when the Yalies pack the opposing bleachers...

Author: By E.a. Resnick, | Title: Inspired By the Ivy Weekend | 10/26/1991 | See Source »

...dirty joke or commenting on someone's appearance. Rather it is an abuse of power in which a worker who depends for her livelihood and professional survival on the goodwill of a superior is made to feel vulnerable. "This is not automatically a male-female issue," says Wendy Reid Crisp, the director of the National Association for Female Executives, the largest women's professional association in the country. "We define this issue as economic intimidation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Office Crimes | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

...Crisp passes and heads-up hustle by Minkus, Uustal and Johnston left the Quakers' defense gasping...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: W. Booters Crush Quakers | 10/7/1991 | See Source »

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