Word: fabricate
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...couldn't wear that to work. The good-quality clothes didn't exist, and they didn't have clothes to wear out, because you were expected to just stay at home." She started a tiny catalog business selling suits made by a New Hampshire sample maker out of fabric Matthias bought retail. The first catalog brought in $3,000 in sales. Last year the enterprise, which now includes 1,000 stores in three price ranges (Motherhood, Mimi Maternity and A Pea in the Pod), grossed half a billion dollars...
...reason for the Palestinian failure - or refusal - to shut down the militant groups is that organizations such as Hamas are now part of the fabric of mainstream Palestinian society. Attempting to shut them down would inevitably ignite a Palestinian civil war. Even moderates such as Abbas, who believes the armed intifada has been disastrous for the Palestinian cause, think that the only way to end it is by reestablishing a consensus among the fighters to return to a peace process...
...TWEED INDEED Even though she was a snob, Chanel loved tweed. The fabric was cheap, but she used the Duke of Westminster's factory and lined the jacket in fur to up the cost--and the status...
...imagery is as much a part of the fabric of fashion as silk, satin and thread, the imagemakers of the fashion business bring something immaterial to the cloth itself. Call it what you want; like all creativity, it's hard to define. We can feel it as an aura of allure or fantasy, the mysterious fever of the cool...
Stephen Ford said that despite his father’s anti-war stance the dean nevertheless considered the student uprising a “dangerous and destructive exercise that went against the fabric of the University...