Word: rags
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...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...
It’s a factory, this dilapidated boathouse near Cincinnati, Ohio. A factory that has produced one of the finest high school rowing clubs in the United States from the ground up. A factory that annually brings in a rag-tag, gangly group of teenagers and turns them into national champions...
...this time in drama. Wong emigrated to Australia in 1997, enrolling in a fashion design course at an East Sydney college. But this time, further studies were superfluous - his teacher thought him so talented (and over-qualified) that she advised him to drop out and head straight into the rag trade. He took her advice, and started his own label. By 2000, he was representing Australia at Hong Kong Fashion Week, his audience instantly recognizing the rich, oriental-style fabrics and Chinese opera motifs that inspire some of his work. HIGH TEA WITH MRS WOO (highteawithmrswoo.com.au): The industrial town...
...this time in drama. Wong emigrated to Australia in 1997, enrolling in a fashion design course at an East Sydney college. But this time, further studies were superfluous-his teacher thought him so talented (and over-qualified) that she advised him to drop out and head straight into the rag trade. He took her advice, and started his own label. By 2000, he was representing Australia at Hong Kong Fashion Week, his audience instantly recognizing the rich, oriental-style fabrics and Chinese opera motifs that inspire some of his work...