Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wealthy and aristocratic American rises from a bed furnished with Irish linen sheets, brushes his hair with English bristle hair brushes, dons a Viyella shirt and Savile Row suit, brightens his outfit with a Carnaby Street tie, and goes down to a breakfast enlivened by English marmalade or Greek honey...
...seasons to become a coach - at Lafayette, Hofstra, and then Princeton. In 16 seasons, his teams have won 294 games v. 106 losses-a record topped only by Kentucky's Adolph Rupp and U.C.L.A.'s Johnny Wooden. Van Breda Kolff insists that Princeton is "just a smalltime outfit trying to get along"-thereby provoking exasperated snorts from opposing coaches who are forever losing top prospects...
...engineer's job at the Lyradion Co., one of the early makers of radio-phonographs. "In those days," says Freimann, "the only people who knew anything about radio were kids." Freimann eventually formed his own Electro-Acoustic Products Co., where his chief supplier of loudspeakers was a struggling outfit named Magnavox. After the two companies merged in 1938, Freimann persuaded the loss-troubled Magnavox management to switch from component to consumer production, stick to a quality line, sell at fixed prices through carefully selected franchised dealers. Even today, Magnavox has only 3,500 dealers...
...secretary of a fellow executive. His subsequent neglect of his own secretary drives the poor girl to drink and dismissal. Even worse is the confrontation with the deceived colleague, the office cuckold. He knows all, the poor fellow announces, and he feels he must switch jobs, joining an outfit in Kansas City. "I can't stay here," he says tragically...
...consolation to I.P.C., but every Western outfit in the Persian Gulf area may soon be paying more. Iran is demanding that its producers increase their output by 17.5% this year to boost its royalties to $625 million. Iraq wants production increased by 10% to bring its revenues to $372 million. Kuwait has decided that its $636 million annual take is not enough...