Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...typically acerbic fashion, Dole hammered Forbes at one point in the debate for using less than complimentary photos of the Kansas senator in some ads and presented Forbes with some better shots that he had in his pocket...
...procedural terms, the saying means this: regardless of how any disagreement between a business and a customer is resolved, the business should always deal with the customer in a courteous and dignified fashion. Even when the business does not or cannot give in to the customer's wishes, employees should always treat the customer in a friendly and respectful manner...
Having provided my interpretation of this popular saying, let me offer two anecdotes in which Cambridge businesses violated this rule in stunning fashion...
...reality because while the official Information for Instructors handbook prohibits professors from posting grades by either ID number or name, the practice is not uncommon among the Faculty. Further, the rule itself is misguided in that, if enforced, students will be prevented from receiving their grades in a timely fashion. And, finally, the current edition of the Teaching Fellows' Handbook, published by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, reads, "Teaching Fellows should not post grades by student names, although student identification numbers may be used." The incompetence made evident by this contradiction astounds...
...ready-to-wear designer John Galliano, 35, who took over last November as boss at Givenchy. Galliano posed a threat on a few fronts. Unlike most couturiers, he is a genuinely colorful character, a camera's darling who changes his entire appearance a couple of times a year. His fashion reputation is based on his rampant inspiration, his romps through costume history that turn archives into seductive, in-your-face clothes. His specialty is the slinky, tricky, bias-cut dress (cut across the grain of the fabric), which is the design of choice for movie stars--or anyone who wants...