Word: scratches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shop in 1969 and was there exclusively until about three years ago. Murphy persuaded Yves Saint Laurent to make clothes in the U.S., and Bloomingdale's opened a Saint Laurent shop before its competitors; it grosses about $ 1 million a year. In Ralph Lauren, Bloomies developed a designer from scratch. When Lauren was an unknown salesman of his own tie designs, Traub and Murphy encouraged him to do more ties, then men's suits and shoes, then women's blouses, skirts, pants and sleepwear. His boutiques now sell $4 million annually, and Lauren has his own company...
...audacious entrepreneurs who built conglomerate empires from scratch in the 1960s, James Derrick Slater endured the longest. Americans like James Ling (Ling-Temco-Vought), Bernie Cornfeld (Investors Overseas Services) and John King (King Resources) saw their corporate houses of cards collapse around them, but England's merger lord and his mammoth Slater, Walker Securities Ltd. seemed to grow more prosperous every year. Now Slater, 46, has also had his comeuppance, His company's role in alleged fiscal improprieties is under investigation in Hong Kong and Singapore; he has resigned as chairman of Slater, Walker and gone into seclusion...
Women, we know what they are. They don't want it, but they do it. When they itch, they look for someone to scratch them...
...always seemed like a foolhardy venture: Malcolm Bricklin, 36, an unconventional millionaire from Philadelphia who sometimes wore Indian beads, thought he could start an auto-manufacturing business from scratch. To the surprise of many, Bricklin, who had made his original fortune running hardware stores, actually acquired two plants in Canada's New Brunswick province and started making his unconventional Bricklin cars. Now two secured creditors and the New Brunswick government, which had put up more than $20 million in cash and loan guarantees to obtain 67% control of Bricklin Canada Ltd., have placed the company in receivership, closing...
These examples only scratch the surface of 1-1-2's behavioristic potential. Pre-meds could all be stuck in one dorm, and the results would indicate much about the nature of the human and Harvard beasts. Would masses of pre-meds realize from this proximity to other pre-meds how crazy their grind is? Would they eventually self-destruct under heightened competition or would they just work harder...