Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kids like Merrill Lynch. Presenting a "vision of what we can be," the book urges employees to do "much more with much less." But the attempt at spirit lifting may backfire. "Disgusting," said an executive. "We would prefer to think that management could communicate with us in an adult fashion...
...torrent of inquiries, including one from a wealthy Midwesterner who offered to inter Parker's remains on his country estate and another from an Arizona businessman who volunteered to create a special paint made from her ashes. O'Dwyer maintains that "we should dispose of her ashes in a fashion consistent with her stature in the arts." Meanwhile, he keeps the remains in a galvanized can wrapped in white paper. "It's a cheap thing," O'Dwyer admits. Parker's epitaph for herself seems more appropriate than ever: "Excuse my dust...
...there be no illusions about what the vogue of crimebusting means. Criminal rights are out of fashion, and the public-defender-as-hero era of popular culture has passed away...
...some ways American higher education mimics the fashion industry. There are top designers (Harvard, Yale and Stanford--Klein, Lauren and Kamali) and there are mediocre ones. Products (clothes, education), differ in quality and style, but they conform to certain conventions...
...like fashion, education undergoes fads. While this season in fashion has witnessed the comeback of the mini-skirt, academics have seen the return of ethical education...