Word: gal
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...couldn't make the payroll," says Fisher. A onetime Hobart, Ind., poultry farmer, Fisher went to Florida specifically to hunt for underwater fortune. Underwater exploration has been his obsession almost from the age of eleven, when, back in Indiana, he made a homespun diving helmet out of a 5-gal. paint can and nearly drowned trying it out. After he arrived in Key West in 1970 and began salvaging, Fisher became a fabled local character on an island where there is considerable competition for such distinction. For years he lived in an old houseboat and drove a $600 used Mercury...
...green ribbons of urban parks abut rows of gleaming shops, department stores and restaurants. Some of the women out for shopping or dinner have dyed-brown hair piled high with looping curls and ultra-feminine (and frequently pink) outfits replete with bows and frills. These are the "Nagoya Gals," a look that swept Japan last year when Tokyo fashion bible JJ gave it its stamp of approval. "Nagoya Gal Kits" flew off Tokyo department-store shelves, and toymaker Takara released a "Nagoya Gal" edition of Rika-chan, the Japanese equivalent of Barbie. Says Maiko Takagi, editor of Nagoya fashion magazine...
...former Toyota executive Yukihisa Hirano and half funded by the private sector, was almost $1 billion under budget when it opened last month. Combined with the World Expo, it may help local leaders to build an international profile to match its rising domestic status. But will that "Nagoya Gal" look play abroad...
...visual slide that elicited a reaction from the crowd was that of a simple green and white quilt entitled “Lazy Gal.” Made from corduroy, this quilt employed a style which Beardsley dubbed “improvised geometries...
Amid all the booing, however, I am one bachelorette who cheered. As a single woman who would love to meet my own Mr. Right, I was definitely surprised that Jen jilted everyone. When it's tough enough for a single gal to get one date at times, it's hard to imagine spurning not just one but 25 good men. At 37, I have Internet-dated, speed-dated, office-dated and even dated the guy next door. I have come off yearlong dating dry spells only to find myself juggling three maybes at once. I have survived enough romantic catastrophes...