Word: floorful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week citizens of Edmond, one of Oklahoma's most prosperous communities, tried to console one another in the aftermath of the senseless horror. Still shaken, postal employees returned to the office the morning after the tragedy. The brown linoleum floor had been freshly cleaned and waxed. Wreaths and baskets of flowers decorated the building and grounds. Along their routes, letter carriers found flowers and notes of condolence in mailboxes. Read one: "We cry with you, we pray for you, we care about you, our friends...
...latitude to display such confections. To a certain extent, the Madison Avenue store competes with Polo outlets in New York metropolitan-area department stores. Some East Coast retailing executives were initially resentful of that. Some had supported Lauren in his earlier days or acquiesced to his extensive demands for floor space and elaborate fixtures in their stores. But the retailers are unlikely to shut down the boutiques in protest, because Lauren is a major attraction in their establishments. Besides, they hope the impact of the deluxe Lauren mansion will help make the Polo label even more prestigious. Says Marvin Traub...
...time the bill hit the Senate floor, its momentum had become irresistible. Even major elements of the business community had come around. Corporations do not benefit uniformly from the many deductions and special rules in current law; for example, one study showed that the effective tax rate on major oil companies is only 8.2%, while wholesalers pay 35.5%. High- tax companies joined with corporate giants like General Motors and IBM, which hoped for a boost to the economy, to create the Tax Reform Action Coalition. When the final vote by the full Senate came in June, the bill passed...
...Story & Clark upright, a Steinway baby grand and a two-tiered Conn with a full footboard. The first townspeople to show up get to sit on folding chairs from the Methodist and Lutheran churches; the tardy in the audience must make do with the staircase and the floor. After the music the party moves into the kitchen for refreshments, and some heretofore taciturn Montanans refresh themselves into the mistaken belief that they have gifted tonsils, but this is putting the cart before the horse...
...last week's shellburst of interest in the artist's secret Helga collection. As the art community focused its attention on Wyeth and his mystery model, the spotlight was shared by the magazine that first got on to the story. TV crews and reporters swarmed over its modest, fifth-floor headquarters on Manhattan's lower Fifth Avenue. The rush of phone calls was so overwhelming at one point that the lights on the switchboard simply conked...