Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...book Mean Business, Dunlap called his pay a bargain for Scott, whose total market value rocketed from $2.9 billion to $9.4 billion on his watch. Others say he did little more than gut the company and dress it up for sale. But for the most part his critics aren't shareholders, the constituency he most wants to serve. Now he's on for an encore at Sunbeam, where earnings are in a two-year slide. Sunbeam's stock was tracing the earnings decline until Dunlap signed on. That day alone, Sunbeam shares jumped 50%. "It'll be a vintage Dunlap...
...mentioned their dress code and said: "If people are intoxicated when they get here, we don't serve them," nothing also that drunk patrons are not served more alcohol. As a result of the findings, the club will be required to file a change of manager application. All of its servers will also have to complete a state-sponsored course on alcohol provision, and the club must join the Underage Drinking Task Force, a local committee devoted to preventing alcohol consumption by youth...
...disembodied head atop a glob of what looks like ground beef and pasta that is rolled onto the stage in a wheelbarrow; Lee Radziwell (Jackie's sister) as a child is shown as a three-foot-tall (gnomish) creature wearing a straw hat and a cardboard baby doll dress; Hugh Auchincloss is completely inanimate as a wrinkly amorphous head with a bodyless suit dangled below...
...always a hard worker. At 13 she lied about her age to get her first job, at the snack bar of the local swimming pool. After high school she worked as a bookkeeper at a car-parts store, but she was fired, she says, because she didn't dress up enough. There was a reason for that. When she did wear a skirt, the boss had a habit of trying to put his hands up under...
...like her, are lost souls in a land of plenty. Abandoned as a child by her father, Nona at middle age finds herself in what is for her an uncomfortable place: a safe, happy marriage to a man who probably won't leave. Like a girl in a beautiful dress that fits just too snugly, she must find a way out. The humiliation she suffers when she does so (in wrenching, honest scenes) ultimately transforms her from a narcissist into, finally, at 40, a grownup...