Word: pinks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...much booed O.J. Simpson memoir, but the publishing exec's rude behavior apparently sealed the deal. Sutton tells of law firms and Wall Street shops now purging their louts. As more corporations adopt codes of conduct that outlaw boorishness, we may see managers stapling the broken contract to the pink slip...
...year-old Jaroslav Ungr, former head of the socialist collective farm that once existed in the Czech village of Zajecov. When Soviet tanks rolled into what was then Czechoslovakia 39 years ago to put an end to the Prague Spring, the now white-haired man in a pink sweater and grey sweatpants was among those who welcomed the Red Army with open arms. But these days the journalists are asking not only about the Russians, but also about the Americans...
...Please help us," a middle-aged town-hall clerk in a pink blouse pleads, repeating three times, "We don't want it here," before the Zajecov mayor enters his office...
...Kida is in charge of predicting when the cherry trees across Japan will begin their annual spring blossoming, or sakura - the cue for millions of Japanese office workers to crowd city parks for boisterous sakura parties, or hanami. There, they'll savor the beauty and brevity of the delicate pink blossoms, so much like life itself, by getting extremely drunk...
...could hardly be expected to see me at such short notice - with the weekend looming - but that was all the time I had, and did he have any suggestions? Danielo shrugged, made a slow U-turn and juddered to a halt at the side of a large pink building. "Presidential Palace," he yawned, hopping out, loping up to the low fence and hailing a man strolling on the other side. That turned out to be the head of the Sao Tome and Principe army. He smiled broadly when I explained my situation, gently chided me that there were, you know...