Word: linens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...general, Schor says she considers the advertising tactics and environmental policies of stores before buying their products. "I like stores who use organic cotton or less destructive fibers like wool or hemp or linen." Citing "Home and Planet" as a store that passes her test, she then addresses Patagonia, as an environmentally friendly store. She goes back and forth on her judgment...
...team has explored four tombs, with a total of 105 mummies laid on top of one another in neat stacks. All told, the remains were interred in four distinct ways. One type was covered with a thin layer of gold. Another lay under lifelike masks made of plaster-coated linen, or cartonnage, that was painted with scenes of ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses, including Isis, Osiris, Horus and Anubis. Still others were placed in so-called anthropoid coffins--pottery sarcophagi with human faces--and a few were only wrapped in linen. Bracelets, amulets, statues of mourning ladies, pottery vessels...
...maybe it was that my feet hurt. A hectic Harvard schedule, three-inch heeled boots and hard cement walkways don't usually combine to produce happy feet at the end of the day, and Friday night was no exception. So when a satin and linen-clad chanter from Monk's ensemble recited a 20th century Hasidic saying in a soothing voice, I felt like I was receiving free counseling for the world-weary. "Put off thy shoes from thy feet," he chanted as contented audience members rustled with laces, "put off the habitual which encloses your foot and you will...
Business sense, along with five-layer coconut cakes and 100 percent linen sheets, "is a good thing," according to Martha Stewart...
Dixie Cleaners, which operates three dry-cleaning shops in Pensacola, Fla., was losing $100,000 a year because clerks were failing to add "up charges" (surcharges for hard-to-clean clothes such as linen or silk garments) on sales tickets. Now a computer enters the extras automatically. Dixie also mails monthly computer-prepared bills to customers who open charge accounts. That pleases customers, who save a few minutes on every trip to the store. But how does one measure their increased satisfaction...