Word: exactingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...billion to 1997's $1.27 billion. But this is nowhere near 1987's high of $1.8 billion. Leslie Freund, marketing director for Maximilian, which sells furs at Bloomingdale's stores, says Maximilian has had double-digit increases over the past two years, but won't divulge exact figures. While the bulk of sales continue to be of classic mink coats, Freund says a growing number of young buyers are drawn to fur by the new styles. "Their first fur may be one of these whimsical pieces, but eventually they'll get more serious," says Freund. "These are our future customers...
...This Desire? never specifies the exact destination for which Harvey was reaching. The ride, though, is thrilling and fascinating, her riddles more powerful for remaining in code. Like Madonna's Ray of Light, which illuminated much but kept some spaces sacred, Harvey's album uses rock at its most modern and electronic to reveal--almost--an artist more fully and humanly herself than we have previously seen her. Even we who have loved all her incarnations will take pleasure and interest in what Polly Jean lays out for us here. God bless her--she tears our hearts out every time...
...many countries is significantly lower than the amount workers need to pay for the basic necessities, our codes must require that manufacturers pay their workers a living wage, to be determined by cost-of-living analyses. Perhaps even more importantly, universities must force the manufacturers to disclose the exact locations of their factories. The schools must have this information in order to deploy monitors to inspect the factories. Students, human-rights groups and the public must have access to this information to ensure the integrity and public accountability of the system by bringing sweatshop abuses into the open rather than...
...policy does the exact opposite; It's almost like we've moved from college back to junior high school. We're smart enough to know what we have to do in law school to learn the material," Persily said...
Elise could radiate; Winfrey had to seethe. "On the surface," Demme notes, "Sethe is stoic, immovable, but inside she's an inferno of emotions. Oprah had to find the exact way to communicate both of these things, and it was great theater every day watching her do it. There were times when Oprah the person would be so overwhelmed with compassion and empathy for Sethe the character that her emotions would take her far away from where Sethe needed to be. As Toni Morrison told me, 'Remember, Jonathan, Oprah cries. Sethe doesn...