Word: gucci
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whether its trademark G's adorn loafers or luggage, suits or silk scarves, the Gucci name has long stood for quiet elegance at a price. Yet the heirs of Saddlemaker Guccio Gucci have proved to be noisy and unrestrained in their battles for control of the burgeoning family empire. In recent years, the best-known Gucci suits have been filed in courtrooms from Florence to Manhattan...
...latest chapter of Gucci vs. Gucci unfolded last week, when an Italian magistrate seized Chairman Maurizio Gucci's controlling interest in the firm amid charges of skulduggery. Said Maurizio: "The accusations brought against me are the evident expression of a preordained personal attack...
Having secured many concessions from the Administration, the business lobbyists who have been so successful in the past at leaving their Gucci- prints on obscure passages of the tax code are now storming Capitol Hill. They are handing out political-action committee checks (last year: $74.3 million for the House alone) and collecting IOUs. "You're looking at an awful lot of deals, and an awful lot of fund raisers, before you see any kind of tax bill," warns Panetta. By the time Congress finishes weighing the reasoned arguments of all the different lobbyists, as well as their PAC contributions...
...West about Gorbachev until recently, except that he was a Moscow State University-trained lawyer and an agronomist, and a man of remarkable political staying power. Then, last December in Britain, Gorbachev and his wife created a stir with their unproletarian style--the London penny press called them the Gucci Comrades. Within days a Soviet media star was born who sported dark, conservatively cut suits, smiled and joked, and was fast on his feet in a way that led one British journalist to compare him to "a successful lawyer or banker from the Midwest." It seemed a repeat of what...
...modest brasseries that offer a delicious newly caught perch for about $10. Any American who wants to take advantage of the strong dollar (now worth 2.8 Swiss francs, up from 1.7 five years ago) will find the Rue du Rhone lined with windows displaying Rolex and Patek Philippe watches, Gucci and St. Laurent clothes. Booming Geneva is also second only to Zurich as a Swiss banking center...