Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...silhouette every six months. Mme. Gres has been turning out her gently flowing dresses pretty much the same way for more than a half-century. Paul Poiret, the first celebrity couturier, left nothing undesigned, not only what a woman wore but everything she touched. His spiritual heir, Ralph Lauren, clothes not only whole milieus but fantasies as well: the dream of belonging, whether to a club or a board or the ski crowd at Vail. Giorgio Armani influenced the way almost every designer thinks by adapting to classic dictates of menswear. In a long career, Cristobal Balenciaga...
...leaders of both parties in Congress. In the Senate, 67 members have urged the President to retain the current Executive Order. The system of goals has support not only among civil rights organizations but also from many U.S. businessmen, who find it a fair and flexible solution. Says Ralph G. Neas, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights: "We've got the strongest consensus on this that we've ever had on a civil rights issue...
...fraud. The company is accused of having illegally charged its expenses to other Government accounts. Funds were allegedly used in part to develop computer software and purchase up to $500,000 worth of ammunition. Along with Beggs, who was then a company director, the indictment names lower-level ! officials: Ralph Hawes, division general manager, David McPherson, program director, and James Hansen, assistant director...
Leading the investment charge are such large institutions as pension funds, insurance companies and banks. Individual investors remain skeptical. Says Ralph Bloch, an analyst at Moseley, Hallgarten, Estabrook & Weeden: "The public are disbelievers. They're waiting for a sure sign...
...husband, "I spend half my life in bed, I might as well have a comfortable pillow." Across from Bean's, at Cole Haan, beautiful shoes are on sale for $89, marked down from $165. Uncountable thousands are in town on a rainy Saturday browsing and buying at Anne Klein, Ralph Lauren and Timberland. Americans work five days and on the sixth shop...