Word: dens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Convoys of minivans are now daily crisscrossing the country, leaving behind a trail of satisfied customers, mostly overworked yuppie couples, young mothers and small-business owners. Maryland-based Decorating Den has accelerated from 100 vans in 1984 to more than 600 franchised van drivers today. The Georgia-based TransDesigns, which sells its own product lines of rugs, drapes and fine-arts objects, has grown from 183 decorators in 1975 to 32,000 decorators and $31 million in retail sales last year...
...Joan Scala, a young couple in sales management and owners of a large four-bedroom home in Jamison, Pa., sought help from Dana Noonan of Decorating Den. For $5,000, Noonan finished the dining room with a new rug, a lambrequin over the windows and matching chair cushions, designed a sunny "Florida" solarium adjacent to the newly outfitted family room, and dramatized the guest bathroom with mauve, black and white accents. The Scalas are happy with the result. Says Joan: "I'm saving money in that I count my time as valuable...
Prefects are left playing den mother, planning parties and excursions. Further complicating matters, as prefects have complained, is the failure of the Freshman Dean's Office to provide adequate training or enough ongoing guidance...
...think that this has ever happened before," said Matlock. Such lofty authorities from the U.S., their minds stuffed with the greatest secrets of the nation, had never clustered in the bear's den, for the simple, spy- novel reason that they might be compromised and the vital stuff sweated out of them...
...Second Team All-ECAC Honorable Mention Janice Sweetser '89 Swimming All-Ivy Second Team Randy Taylor '87 Hockey All-Ivy First Team All-ECAC First Team All-New England Clifton Tidwell '87 Football All-Ivy Honorable Mention Julia Trotman '89 Sailing New England "Top Five" Rich van den Broek '88 Lacrosse All-Ivy Honorable Mention Lisa Vansen '90 Outdoor Track All-Ivy First Team Maggie Vaughan '90 Lacrosse All-Ivy First Team Ivy Rookie of the Year Kathy Vigna '87 Tennis All-Ivy First Team (singles and doubles) Peter Wagner '88 Sailing All-America Hon. Mention Keith Webster '87 Basketball...