Word: hinting
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...hopping Wall Streeters have never put a premium on loyalty. So Dick Grasso is a rarity--a man who has had exactly one employer, the New York Stock Exchange, in his entire 36-year career. The Big Board chairman gave a hint last week to what's been keeping him there. Mindful of the exchange's push for more openness among its members, Grasso disclosed that he earns a minimum $2.4 million annually. Very nice, that. But he also announced that he would cash out close to $140 million in deferred pay and retirement benefits this year...
Paris without us - well, that would be rather a different story," says Jean-Louis Costes with just a hint of a smile, and if you don't know the man you might think he's an amiable megalomaniac. After all, most Parisians have never heard of Costes or his brother Gilbert; they rarely speak to the press. But if you've spent even a weekend in Paris, it's a good bet they have taken your money and shown you a good time. The Costes brothers are limonadiers, French slang for café owners, but theirs is a lemonade empire...
...startled some palates. Tea is hot these days: sales doubled between 1990 and last year, to $5.3 billion, according to the Tea Council of the U.S.A. But the sharpest increase came from ready-to-drink cold teas, whose sales grew 800% over the same period. If you want a hint of sweet, try Honest Tea's line of lightly sweetened organic teas. Still sweeter? Try SwissT's honey-infused Green Tea. --By Lisa Takeuchi Cullen
...Jennifer would bring us tear sheets from fashion shows and hint that that was what she wanted. For example, she likes real fur. But department stores like Federated don't buy real fur for juniors, so we would try to incorporate faux fur into the line so it would fit our price point...
...China's Trial Run CHINA The verdict from the trial of Boston-based Chinese dissident Yang Jianli - which opens in Beijing Monday - may hint at the direction the new communist leadership will take on human-rights issues. Yang has been held in virtual isolation since he was arrested 15 months ago for entering the country on a false passport, and was denied access to a lawyer and family members for nearly a year. Blacklisted as a result of his activism during the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising, Yang settled in the U.S. His wife says he returned to China...