Word: layaway
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Claim to fame: Not so long ago, catalogs garnered about as much respect in the luxury world as layaway plans. Lorenzotti, 35, changed that with Vivre, her glossy source book of luxe goods...
After nearly a month’s layaway from racing, the Harvard men and women’s track and field teams awoke from their winter break Saturday against Northeastern...
...problems that the President is leaving for the future." A Wisconsin high-schooler was more upbeat: "Rest easy, folks. The 95% of us who weren't handed our lives on a silver platter will make sure your later years are prosperous and pleasant. Just keep the Cartier watch on layaway...
...thanks to Buddy and Jerry, the demon seed has been planted. Two years later I am asking my long-suffering parents to bail me out in my failing attempt to purchase a pedal steel on layaway, which I imprudently committed to at the beginning of the year that, by mutual consent with my father, I took off from college to ponder the relative merits of working in a piss factory and attending an Ivy League school. They oblige on a loan, and I tackle the beast. But my first dalliance is too much, too soon: The complexity of the instrument...
...first glance, the 23-room neoclassical house seems a picture-book fantasy of wealth -- staid sweeps of off-white and gilt reflected in blue mirrors. But a closer look reveals some worn furniture that speaks of layaway plans and discount shops, pieces hauled over from the Presleys' prestardom house...