Word: outfit
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Sitting front and center in a black suit and black shirt is tonight's ringmaster: Bruno Sälzer, 50, chairman and CEO of a company founded in 1923 not far from this field. Back then, it was a small sewing outfit helmed by a guy called Hugo Boss. Today Hugo Boss AG has a retail value of $6.5 billion and?for 2006, the year of the most recent declared figures?net sales of $1.97 billion with a net profit of $170 million. It also has 9,385 full-time employees, not to mention those working for subsidiaries around the world...
...straight, you must also look fairly attractive. Male comics can be sexy because they’re funny. Women have to be both, but not so much that it’s distracting. Evolutionarily speaking, every time I go on stage I try to wear an outfit that exclaims “Don’t worry! Although I am attempting to make you laugh, I hope you will not cease to view me as a sex object.” Yet all the bizarre hurdles to women in comedy have an upside: Only the strong survive. There are more...
...Beijing resident Richard Robinson, an American and a "plastic patty" - the bearer of an Irish passport thanks to an Irish grandfather - wore a cocked neon-green velvet top hat to complete his leprechaun outfit. Surveying the scene, he said, "This is the same as a parade anywhere else. Except it's more sober. And it's in China." David Sheridan, who had flown in along with his band, the Geantra? Players for which he plays the fiddle, thought the event showed a needed "bit of looseness in China." He liked something about the look of it. "There's great color...
...after World War I in a sports-shoe factory in tiny Herzogenaurach, Germany. The two got their spiked running shoes onto the feet of Olympic star Jesse Owens in 1936, but a bitter family feud soon split their business in half, resulting in the founding of Adidas (Adi's outfit) and Puma (Rudi's company). The whole town got into the act, says the author: "People always looked down, because they were careful to see what shoes others were wearing before they started a conversation...
...pricey pinstripes, a jewel-encrusted cross and what looks like a chic Italian handbag. On the inside of the paper, reporter Roman Shleinov has a detailed piece (headlined super family) on Golikova; her husband, Industry and Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko; and their son Vladimir, now working at a metals outfit run by one of his parents' cronies...