Word: mainstays
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...Nigerian who'd gone to play for a Polish club side and had so impressed the country's football authorities that the government had fast-tracked him for citizenship in order to boost their prospects at the last World Cup. The irony is that although Olisadebe is still the mainstay of the Polish attack, he no longer even lives in Poland, having moved to a more lucrative gig for the Greek club Panathanaikos...
...Nigerian who'd gone to play for a Polish club side and had so impressed the country's football authorities that the government had fast-tracked him for citizenship in order to boost their prospects at the last World Cup. The irony is that although Olisadebe is still the mainstay of the Polish attack, he no longer even lives in Poland, having moved to a more lucrative gig for the Greek club Panathanaikos...
...Franken and Janeane Garofalo on liberal radio network Air America, Howard Stern fulminating against the FCC or Chris Rock calling Bush a liar in an HBO special, political--and often anti-Bush--commentary has replaced "White guys can't dance" jokes as comedy's mainstay. And while Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, right, professes to be nonpartisan, it has lately become a one-stop source for lacerating criticism of the war in Iraq (or as The Daily Show has called it, the "Mess O' Potamia") and the Administration in general...
...LAUDER traveled tirelessly to local beauty salons, demonstrating the product on women marooned under hair dryers. In 1948, after dogging the store's president, she was granted counter space at Saks Fifth Avenue. When, in the beginning, her advertising budget was meager, she hatched what is today a promotional mainstay in the industry, the "gift with purchase." In 1953 she introduced the scented bath oil Youth Dew, luring new customers who previously considered fragrance an indulgence for the rich. As the company launched such brands as Clinique and Prescriptives, Lauder maintained strict control over the techniques of her vast sales...
...LAUDER traveled tirelessly to local beauty salons, demonstrating the product on women marooned under hair dryers. In 1948, after dogging the store's president, she was granted counter space at Saks Fifth Avenue. When, in the beginning, her advertising budget was meager, she hatched what is now a promotional mainstay in the industry, the "gift with purchase." In 1953, she introduced the scented bath oil Youth Dew, luring new customers who previously considered fragrance an indulgence of the rich. As the company launched such brands as Clinique and Prescriptives, Lauder maintained strict control over the techniques of her vast sales...