Word: osier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Michael Raus, Jonathan Osier and Byron Burge, who finished private school in the Louisville area in June, faced the prospect of an endless summer without a job before they entered college. The trio then decided to exploit their preppie cachet. They assembled about 25 well-scrubbed young men and women to do odd jobs in the well-heeled area and called their new enterprise Preps for Rent. The basic company uniform: Lacoste shirts, Top Siders and khaki pants or shorts. For $7 an hour, this upper-class job corps mows lawns, serves drinks and paints houses...