Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York City-based women's-fashion maker. In mid-1997, the suit contends, Friedman pressured Forty Three Apparel president Mark Singer, who depended on Loehmann's for 80% of his business, into giving Friedman's wife Debbie a high-level job. Within a year, she left the firm, allegedly with clothing patterns and manufacturing processes, and started her own competing outfit. (Loehmann's says the suit has no merit.) It didn't take long, Singer argues, for Forty Three Apparel to lose its Loehmann's business to Debbie Friedman and sink into bankruptcy...
...employee posed as a business-school student researching a paper, and another played a Swiss banker seeking investment opportunities. One alleged target, NRB Industries, has reportedly settled its case against Milliken. The $2 billion-a-year titan has denied the charges, but Johnston, a $330 million-a-year textile firm, claims it lost $30 million to the alleged skullduggery. "It defies logic," says president D. Clark Ogle, "that a company 10 times our size would feel threatened [enough] to do that...
...easy matter. Many companies shy away from reporting incidents for fear of bad publicity or having to divulge their treasured secrets in court. That may be a small price to pay, though. For now, the underhanded tactics "are classics for one reason," says Alan Brill, of investigative firm Kroll Associates. "They still work...
When he's motivated, Wilson continues to have a firm grasp on his music. A few days after the interview, during a sound check for the second stop on the tour (a virtually sold-out theater just outside Chicago), Thomas seems to be running things. But Wilson is unhappy with a run-through of Kiss Me, Baby, a classic Beach Boys tune. Somewhere in the middle of a complex arrangement featuring nine vocalists, he has detected someone singing flat. He asks to run through the song again and then abruptly calls a halt after maybe half...
...Hell's Angels. His vengeful father, long split, teaches him philosophy: get even. Somehow he learns to play the trumpet well enough to join a neighborhood Mexican band. He grows six inches in a summer and stops being fat. He takes a job spraying concrete for a construction firm. Loses job. Is last seen swinging a sledge with his dad, breaking truck tires loose from rims. Gets word processor (we guess), writes all this stuff down to see whether it makes sense. No, but it makes a life, or the rowdy first part of one, and a better-than-fair...