Word: deckers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Perlmutter, who had bought control of the distressed outfit the previous year, hired as CEO Peter Cuneo, who had turned around such companies as Remington, Clairol and Black & Decker. Under the duo's guidance, Marvel slowly transformed itself into a conservative but lucrative licensing business. "I always tell people that when you come out of bankruptcy, it's like chemotherapy. You may be cured of cancer, but you're still very weak," says Cuneo, now a Marvel vice chairman. "But then along came Spider...
...Next to the highway, a dozen station hands and visitors are helping to load a double-decker, three-carriage road train; 1,200 hooves are bound for nearby Alice Downs and then Wyndham for shipping. As ringers crack whips, three women are prodding mickeys (young bulls) through a series of pens; red dust and deep-voiced murmurs of "Get on" and "Go" fill the air. Burton, fag in hand, strides about. The mickeys are the most economical stock; there's little price premium in fattening them up. "The whole operation is about turning grass into T-bones," he says...
...Because when Baby Boomers imagine a working student, they figure you?re clocking a few hours a week at the library checkout counter. But a third of college students with jobs are working full-time (or nearly so). I call these busy student-workers Big Macs. Like the double-decker sandwich with two hamburgers, these students are doubling up on class and McJobs...
...Decker expressed strong support for the pilot program, arguing that the program would bring equity to the council by providing all councillors with resources currently available only to the mayor and vice-mayor...
...feel very good about knowing how much [more] I can do for constituents,” Decker said...