Word: ragging
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...Garment District is 14 years old, the complement to the Dollar A Pound business that began when the building still housed an industrial rag manufacturer...
...hour CBS special titled Kraft Salutes George Burns' 90th Birthday, to be broadcast next week. Did the nonagenarian jokester have any pointers for the Great Communicator? Explains Burns: "I don't tell him what to do, and he doesn't tell me how to sing the Red Rose Rag." Also doing their schtik are Milton Berle, Bill Cosby, Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Walter Matthau and Billy Crystal. Burns will sing a song or two, puff his omnipresent cigar, and maybe even dance. But do not expect him to wax nostalgic. He has just signed a five-year contract with Caesars...
Once into his 40s, Homer rarely went anywhere without rag paper, sable brushes and the little pans of color. He took his working vacations in places he knew would give him subjects--the New England coast, the Adirondacks, the tumultuous rivers of Quebec, the Florida Keys and the dark palmetto-fringed pools of Homosassa, the bays and whitewashed coral walls of the Bermudas...
...decades at Honda and as president of BMW Tokyo. The new chairman and CEO of Daiei, one of Japan's largest department-store and supermarket chains, will need all that sales savvy to reverse the ailing giant's fortunes. Hayashi must prove she has the same touch in the rag trade that she had selling ragtops. --By Jim Frederick
...What competition? There is no competition. Remember that. They’re facing what is essentially a professional army against their group of rag-team rebels,” says Ross-Rieder who claims he may get a “full-on bikini wax” for the competition...