Word: duponts
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NYLON STOCKINGS Nylon was created in 1938 DuPont found the killer app in 1940 when the first nylon stockings went on sale. Women gladly paid $1.15 a pair, twice the price of silk stockings...
That's a balance the most nimble Chinese gymnast would find tough to maintain. The Net, after all, is designed to be open. And if the idea of the Web is to make Chinese firms more competitive, that means letting them have access to everything from DuPont's chemicals website to the U.S. Patent Office's listing of new inventions. For that reason, some Chinese think the government will drop all its talk about an intranet and throw open the doors. Says a 24-year-old engineer at Unicom-Sparkice: "Walk into any Chinese company with Net access and look...
That may sound strange, but father and son have not spoken with one voice of late. Last month, while Junior was denying that his father was distressed over his decision to sell the company's 25% stake in DuPont in order to buy into Hollywood, Senior suggested in an interview with W magazine that trading nylon for celluloid was a terrible idea. His chagrin is understandable: the DuPont stock, worth $8.8 billion when Seagram sold it in 1995 to pay for its $5.7 billion purchase of Universal, has soared about $9 billion in value. Seagram's stock lags the market...
Even more damaging are the conversations that occurred after Lewinsky was subpoenaed by Paula Jones' lawyers in December. She said Clinton told her to see his friend Vernon Jordan, and he'd help her out. She met him in his Dupont Circle office, and she presented Jordan a list of public relations firms she'd like to work for. The next time they met he picked her up at the Pentagon to go meet a lawyer and draft her affidavit. "Take your anger and frustration with the President and vent them on me," he told her at the time, adding...
Your item on new styles for this fall [ARTS & MEDIA, Sept. 8] included Vogue editor Lauren duPont's remarks on shoes with stiletto heels. Her comment that "they're sleek and sexy; we will have to bear the pain" was ridiculous. Just who are the unfortunate "we" to whom she refers? I certainly have no intention of rushing out to buy shoes that would cause me both physical and financial damage. Let DuPont and her reflexologists take note: there is at least one potential customer out here who will be sticking with her comfortable flats, no matter what...