Word: ragging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rag trade, where rivals try to rip one another to shreds every season and a designer is only as good as his or her last collection, Karan's performance has been virtually seamless. At 44, in business for herself for just eight years, she has not only shaped a distinctively comfortable, sexy style as a designer but has also amassed a formidable empire as a businesswoman. Her revenues this year should reach $268 million, up from $119 million in 1989. By 1995, with more and more sales coming from overseas markets, revenues might top the half-billion-dollar mark...
Another social locus for the lesbians and bisexual women student population is supplied by activities such as women's discussion group 7th Sense and the feminist magazine The Rag...
...Free Limbaugh is designed to raise liberals' dander quotient. Consider: a vote for Clinton-Gore is "a vote for socialism." Rush has been on Slick Willie's case all year, rejoicing in the early tales of infidelity, assiduously promoting this month's mission-to- Moscow story. He loves to rag Democratic politicians: Ted Kennedy, of course, but also "former U.S. cadaver -- ahem, Senator -- Alan Cranston" or "Fort Worthless Jim Wright, the former Sleazer of the House." What about Perot's 50 cents gas tax? "We could've gone ahead and let Saddam Hussein win and accomplished the same thing...
Considering that the Red Sox' pathetic season stopped being funny long ago and that Republican strategists have not yet scheduled a Cambridge visit for the vice president, Harvard students, as usual, are left to rag on the Undergraduate Council. Most students don't know or even care all that much about it, but some vignettes from last year's council speak for themselves...
Listen to them rag and brag on one another in public. In Austin, Clinton said this about his running mate: "I love to hear him speak, even though when he finishes there's nothing left for me to say. But I do resent the fact that he doesn't have any gray hair -- and I'm trying to get him to use some dye." For his part, the Tennessee Senator confided to a home-folks crowd in Memphis: "Tipper and I have had the wonderful experience of getting to know Hillary and Bill Clinton . . . If there is a subject under...