Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...graduates can be represented in the show, and that is a bad blow to many. To stretch its faculty--and encourage the kids--the college calls back old grads, who work on a project basis. One is Bill Gayten, a cutter for Galliano. While novice tailors listen, he talks about the designer's famous bias-cut dresses, many of which he has worked on. Galliano demands toiles (patterns) not of traditional muslin but of the same fine fabric the gown will be made of, and will not look at a garment in progress unless it is on a live model...
...Council is not going to talk, we're going to listen," Councillor Mike Sullivan said to open the meeting that lasted for an hour and one half. "This is an opportunity for us to hear from you as we approach the 21st century...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "[T]he deficit is our generation's equivalent of the flood. God could no longer tolerate the excesses of his children and warned the people, but they didn't want to listen, and we know what happened...
...completed five. What he really wants to win, though, is this race for the seat being vacated by Sam Brownback. A self-described moderate, Friedan describes the proposed G.O.P. attempt to slow Medicare growth as "crippling." He has traveled throughout eastern Kansas, meeting with citizens at "Table Talks" to listen to their concerns. Frieden gives the Democrats a chance to break the G.O.P.'s two-year monopoly on Kansas seats in the U.S. House...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "I listen to the people, then I set an agenda to get things done to improve our community. I will fight for the values of the hard-working people of this district...