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...punch in and out for up to $150 an hour are being snapped up by firms and institutions eager for their services but only for a while. Professionals now account for an estimated 11% of the 800,000 Americans who work each day in temporary positions. The top-drawer temps, whose numbers are increasing about 10% a year, are profoundly changing the $6 billion temporary-service industry...
...guarantee what he sells? Mrs. Lomas smiles a gentle, deal-the-cards smile and explains that in the antiques business there are no guarantees. Which does not mean there is no honesty. On a hunch, the day before, Dan Hingston, Withington's veteran auction manager, had unscrewed the brass drawer pulls of an inlaid, bowfront bureau. It was a rare piece, made around 1800, and Hingston had expected it to bring from $7,000 to $10,000. He discovered that the elaborate inlay work was modern, probably done about 50 years...
...liked clothes, to have a Polo tie was such a luxury. It was really a coveted item," recalls a former employee, Anthony Edgeworth, now a noted photographer. Lauren sold $500,000 worth of ties in his 1967 start-up year, when his entire business fit into one large drawer in a rented space in the Empire State Building. At least one powerful department store, Bloomingdale's, tried to persuade Lauren to make his radical ties narrower. But his novel design became such an instantaneous rage that Bloomingdale's gave in. Before long, retailers were ordering 100 dozen of the young...
...Beta Kappa from Stanford. He was born in Canada, the son of an electrical engineer, and ended up in Brea, Calif., where he spent five semesters at local colleges, dropping out and eventually drifting into Corman's orbit. As adolescents, she was a reader, while he was a drawer, often of fantastic sci-fi visions. She liked "film," as he put it, while he was drawn to the "movies." And he has been heard to wonder if, in her Palm Springs days, she would have dated a boy from across the tracks, as he was. "There are no tracks...
After two years, Cuomo sent out dozens of letters to top-drawer Manhattan law firms. A friend urged him in applying to use his more Anglicized middle name, Matthew, rather than Mario, advice he did not take. Cuomo was rejected by every firm. He was stung. He saw their response as a clear example of prejudice against Italian Americans, and it confirmed his sense of himself as an outsider. He took a job instead with a firm in Brooklyn and gravitated toward trial work. He loved the verbal jousting, the sweet certainty that preparation paid...