Word: martha
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...more magic," says Betsy Taylor, president of New American Dream, a nonprofit that runs a website called SimplifytheHolidays.org A 2002 survey by Taylor's organization found that 77% of adults polled said they wanted a "more simplified" holiday season. "We went through a period where everything had to be Martha Stewart perfect," Taylor explains, "but now there's a countertrend where people want to spend less time trying to find a parking space at the mall and more time actually enjoying the holiday with loved ones...
Langdell Professor of Law Martha A. Field ’65, who was one of the first females to be tenured at the Law School, said last month that “the [gender] imbalance among assistant professors is definitely a problem which I think the school is aware of.” But Kagan noted that the total number of tenure-track faculty is so low that “it’s hard to tell anything meaningful about male-female ratios...
Which is why the puritanical glee that has greeted this new trend is so creepy. Newspapers have heralded the “end of pop-tart influence” with a self-satisfied, victorious air not seen since the conviction of Martha Stewart. One of Seventeen’s editors dubbed the new look “Miss Modesty.” Women interviewed for news articles cite a desire to avoid looking “trashy,” and state that “being a lady is big.” As one told the San Diego...
Bloomberg Professor of Law Martha L. Minow, who spearheaded the filing of the friend-of-the-court brief in January, said that the Third Circuit panel did not use the Harvard faculty’s specific arguments in yesterday’s decision...
...week's $11 billion megamerger with floundering discounter Kmart, the Sears Grand could be the foundation of an extreme and long-overdue makeover. By melding the Sears savvy in selling so-called hard goods like dishwashers, lawn mowers and flat-panel TVs with Kmart's upmarket "soft" brands like Martha Stewart Everyday, Jaclyn Smith and Joe Boxer, the sales pitch goes, the two perennial retail losers just might create a winning formula. On the other hand, by combining two badly managed retail dinosaurs into one, wags say, the companies may simply save themselves some bankruptcy fees when they inevitably...