Word: inners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Padded Tunic. She and her friends hired a pattern cutter to snip out standard American sizes and sent the results off to China, where the clothes were manufactured. Their bestseller is the classic Mao jacket, padded slightly for warmth, with a removable (and washable) white inner collar and buttons concealing snap closings. It retails for $33 (with matching trousers, it is called the jen-min chuang, or people's suit). The Dragon Ladies also offer other styles right out of Terry and the Pirates-a bright red medallion-print pantsuit at $70 and a long coat with slits...
...security is not whether one tradition wins or loses in the future, is not wrapped up in the lengthy papers of the bishop's Synod in Rome; and is not in the future of St. Paul's Church. Their significance must be found in Christ's dual promise of inner meaning for the individual and the promise of a new world for the suffering, hungry, and persecuted. If each different Catholic past and present is to find a common bond, it will be through finding and keeping this common core of spiritual and human meaning
...shaped like slices of a pie. The narrow end of each wedge would be in the center city. Some suburbanites are worried that their children might be bused as far as 16 miles to a downtown school. The answer of one city administrator is that "after all, suburbanites with inner-city jobs drive this far every day and they don't think anything about it." Conceding that such distances would be onerous for children, however, officials are also considering a cross-busing plan between existing school districts. Since many black areas are just across municipal boundaries from white ones, such...
Part of Jahn's rise to eminence as Europe's biggest chain restaurateur is the result of using American methods of mass purchasing and strict cost controls. Another ingredient is a deft instinct for customers' inner needs. His restaurants are gemütlich, the food is solid, and the prices are 10% to 20% lower than almost anywhere else-precisely what he would want for himself, despite his success. A chief deputy, Rolf Schielein, says of Jahn: "Basically, he has retained his waiter's mind...
...character, the older Rabbit is far from flawless. His tongue is sometimes a trifle too sharp for his faculties. But there is something hard and durable about him. It is as if his brief glory as an athlete left him with an inner grace that will never be completely hidden by the sallowing of middle age. He possesses a certain open-endedness and possibilities, if not for change, at least for further misadventure...