Word: designations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worlds of Gianni Versace and Andrew Cunanan may have first intersected in the early 1990s, when both were in San Francisco--Versace to design costumes for a production of the San Francisco Opera. Erik Gruenwald, now a Los Angeles attorney, remembers that Cunanan approached him at Colossus, a local gay club, with exciting news. "I just met Gianni Versace," Cunanan told Gruenwald. "I said, 'Sure, and I'm Coco Chanel.'"A forthcoming article in Vanity Fair reports that Cunanan, now 27, had encountered Versace among a crowd backstage at the opera, and that Versace spoke to him, apparently thinking they...
...view of Versace's death. The eagerly awaited sale was to have transformed Versace into a public company that could tap the stock market for funds to sustain its rapid growth. To be sure, the company can still show investors some impressive fashion strengths. Versace boasts highly skilled design teams, for example, that can respond quickly to changes in the marketplace. And the company's ownership of a majority stake in 10 of its manufacturing licensees enables it to turn the latest ideas off the street into ready-to-wear merchandise swiftly...
...battle lines are deeply drawn. Taking a page from AIDS activists, several advocacy and educational groups are insisting that, among other things, they be consulted in the design of scientific studies of Lyme. Their input has not been entirely welcomed by the scientific community. One outspoken program officer at the National Institutes of Health was so vociferous in his criticism of the Lyme groups that he was barred from having anything more to do with the disease. His cause was taken up three weeks ago in an op-ed piece in the New York Times that criticized the lay groups...
...week's end the lander batteries were recharging smartly, and Pathfinder mission manager Richard Cook seemed unconcerned about Sojourner's fast-expiring design life. "I think at this point we're all expecting it to live for a long time," he said. "It has proved to be very capable...
Furthermore, if one of the non-conforming buildings were destroyed by fire or another disaster, it could not be rebuilt according to the original design because it would not conform to zoning regulations...