Word: outfitted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Perlmutter, who had bought control of the distressed outfit the previous year, hired as CEO Peter Cuneo, who had turned around such companies as Remington, Clairol and Black & Decker. Under the duo's guidance, Marvel slowly transformed itself into a conservative but lucrative licensing business. "I always tell people that when you come out of bankruptcy, it's like chemotherapy. You may be cured of cancer, but you're still very weak," says Cuneo, now a Marvel vice chairman. "But then along came Spider...
...based around an attitude. Years ago, a friend of mine was flying to L.A., and his girlfriend hadn't flown much. I remember her saying, "I was so excited. I was trying to figure out what I was going to wear on the plane, and I changed my outfit three times." I was 26, and I found that being that excited about something that was so commonplace was kind of engaging. That kind of spirit becomes Ed Grimley [on Saturday Night Live]. If the phone rang, before he answered it, he'd turn to the camera...
Like a lot of skate-park designers, Mark Hubbard, a former pro skater who is the founder of Grindline, got his start constructing swimming pools, a job that let him hang around those beautiful smooth surfaces. Now his 50-person outfit works on six parks at a time. And although Hubbard is 35, he still tries them out when they're done. "I'll skate until I can't anymore," he says. "And then I'll keep building. There are a lot of towns in America, and they could all use a skate park...
...many as a quarter of all new moms are actually blocking their husbands' attempts at involved fathering. These "Gatekeeper Moms" give mixed signals - they beg their husbands to get the kid dressed, then are hypercritical over the choice of outfit he puts the baby in. They leave long lists of instructions whenever going out, as if Dad's a new babysitter. Or they demand their husbands tackle half the duties, yet they resent it when Dad asks to be an equal partner in critical decisions, such as determining when their baby should undergo sleep training rather than be fed during...
Over the past three years, Emaar Properties, an outfit in the United Arab Emirates, has become one of the world's leading real estate developers. Emaar was founded in 1997 by ruler Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum to lead the Dubai construction boom. The 70/30 business-government partnership, run by chairman Mohammed Ali Alabbar, started taking its expertise on the road in 2002, achieving a market cap worth $20 billion. Currently, in addition to constructing Burj Dubai, touted as the world's tallest skyscraper, Alabbar is busy with undertakings from hotels in Miami to a convention center in Hyderabad...