Word: pinks
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...chorus of concrete creatures which Myers makes, repairs and sells to the public. He characterizes the latter as "licorice all-sorts-anyone who doesn't understand what the sign is. Locals, interstaters, people from overseas. Just never-ending." So is his merchandise. There are ponies, toadstools, eagles, penguins and pink flamingos-"all sorts of bloody gear, mate." But most of all there are gnomes...
...threatened species in the park, and the drought isn't helping. The ground is poor in nutrients-"Dead soil, bottomless sand, really," says Edwards, "but great for natives"-and with barely 25 mm of rain so far (against last year's 125), the threat intensifies. Edwards points to a pink Verticordia. One book says it's common over a fairly wide range, but "it only grows here, despite what the guide says." The featherflower is tiny, fragile, exquisite. Not many people have seen one. It's easy to understand how the addiction might start...
...there a "pink ceiling" that holds gays back? Yes, say workplace experts, but it's fading. "I don't think all of corporate America has jumped into 2006 yet," says p.r. expert Witeck. For the gay executives themselves, the challenge continues. "Coming out in business is something we do every day. It's not a one-time event," says Claudia Woody, the managing director of IBM's Nokia account worldwide. Author Snyder is ever optimistic, though. "Within the next five years," he says, "we will see the first openly gay CEO of a FORTUNE 500 company." By which time...
...Charles Hotel hosted a “Pink Panther” movie night on July 28th, Boloco is handing out pink ribbons to customers and donating $1 from each smoothie sale to the Hoffman Breast Center, and The Carriage House Salon is donating one hundred percent of the profits from pink nail polishes and lotions, five dollars per manicure, and ten dollars per pedicure to the Hoffman Center...
...financial success. As of earlier this week, Henrietta’s had sold 505 Strawberry Teas and Noir had sold 174 “Femme Fatales.” Boloco had raised $547 through the sale of smoothies, and The Carriage House salon had sold about thirty bottles of pink nail polish...