Word: lapelled
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...earned $500,000 in company stock, and a few of her colleagues have become paper millionaires. At Quad/Graphics, a Wisconsin printing company, the average five-year employee owns shares worth $250,000. In Avis car-rental offices across the U.S., employees are touting their stake in the company with lapel buttons that put a new twist on their old "We Try Harder" slogan: OWNERS TRY HARDER...
...unreal. It's so wierd that this is actually happening, when we've waited for so long," said one support staff member, clipping a Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) button onto her lapel...
...incident seemed to revivify Bush and galvanize his campaign. "We're getting phone calls now from fence sitters we've been after for weeks," said Bill Cahill, a Bush staffer in New Hampshire. At a campaign stop in South Dakota, Bush found dozens of his listeners wearing lapel buttons with a diagonal slash across "Dan Rather." At Bush's national headquarters, an aide scurried through the lobby with a long memo draft titled "Reaping the Benefits of the Rather Interview...
...know what you just did?" I asked one of my friends as he fastened a red and white pro-union button to the lapel of his jacket. He told me that he liked the button, and that one name wasn't going to make a difference anyway. He didn't have any idea what he had signed, and he didn't care...
...know what got into me," said Giamatti's secretary, Kathleen O'Wiggins. "Bart--he lets us call him Bart--expects to have a fresh carnation for his lapel every day, bright and early, as soon as he gets here in the morning. You should see how his face lights up just after he pins it on. But I just forgot. I hope he doesn't spank me like the last time...