Word: fitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crowd, mind you -- are dropping in on New York City just for a weekend, blitzing the stores along Manhattan's Fifth Avenue and queuing up for Broadway shows. "We've been to Majorca, Crete and Yugoslavia," says one of the whirlwind invaders, Phil Stevens, 43, a carpet fitter from Britain. "But," he crows, "America is so cheap this year...
...really well. It showed that we're fitter than two or three weeks ago," Cann said...
...document born into obsolescence. Rome is speaking to the Catholic right wing and from the Catholic right wing." Edward Marut, a Chicago-area Catholic doctor and fertility expert, says childless Catholics are "incensed" at the church's tough line. Two days after the Vatican's prohibition was issued, Susan Fitter, 33, of Lawton, Okla., who has been trying to have a child for four years, went ahead with her decision to use in vitro fertilization with her husband's sperm for later implantation in a surrogate carrier. She has decided that she would leave the church rather than submit...
...entire ground level given over to gourmet markets and eateries -- caviar and quail to go. Matrons browse among $11,000 silk dresses and $5,000 crocodile handbags in the boutiques of Clothier Amen Wardy, an ex-Texan who is happy to send clients a "clothesmobile" staffed with a fitter. South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa is equally posh. Yachts and other pleasure craft are so numerous that dock space in Newport Beach's harbor rents for as much as $300 a month for a 30-footer. Local Mercedes Dealer Jim Slemons has doubled his business in four years and stocks...
Tapie is well qualified to discuss the merits of the new French dream. Creator and manager of the holding company Groupe Tapie, which had profits of $45 million on sales of roughly $1 billion in 1985, Tapie was the son of a pipe fitter in the Paris suburb of La Courneuve. As a teenager he helped support his family by hauling burlap sacks of coal. Tapie first went into management consulting, but soon began starting new companies. His first few ventures failed disastrously, but in the late '70s he suddenly discovered his forte: rejuvenating bankrupt businesses. Thanks to his talent...