Word: shirtful
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...Australia, staged inside one of the departure terminals at LAX, to the slight confusion of people walking toward security. As Brett Godfrey, Virgin Blue's CEO, unveils the airline's introductory fare--$1,000 round trip between Sydney and Los Angeles--Branson, in jeans and a rumpled polo shirt, interrupts. "That's not good enough," he declares. "What kind of plane are we flying? 777s? Then let's make it $777 for the first thousand tickets!" People cheer, as if Branson has just spontaneously handed out $223 in dollar bills, but his lines are part of a well-choreographed...
...making, say, plain cotton underwear. About 70% of the cost of making a Brooks tie comes from materials (the company imports almost all its silk fabric from England and Italy), which leaves a fairly small fraction of the cost coming from labor. Compare that with making a Brooks shirt, for which the proportion is flipped--just 30% of the cost of production is from the material--and it's easy to see why chasing the least expensive workers isn't nearly as imperative in tie manufacturing as it might be elsewhere. There's also the convenient fact that customers...
Brooks, though, isn't oblivious to the price it pays for goods. The company's other U.S. factory, a shirt plant in North Carolina, provides a good comparison. Brooks sells more than 3.5 million shirts a year but makes only about 250,000 at its factory, which is reserved for higher-end wares such as made to order and the Golden Fleece brand. Most of the others come from Malaysia. "Part of it is the prestige of having shirts handcrafted in our own factory," says Dixon. "It's a marketing initiative." The tie factory, though, offers no such appeal. Even...
...weight room this morning and I saw a pretty tall, athletic looking guy,” Dawson said. “He took off his sweatshirt and he had a Columbia shirt on. Ivy League recruiting is becoming a lot more common. It’s just great...
...what I’m for, is it not?”The thought flashed through Felicity’s brain that perhaps he was there for, well, something else. Perhaps those Roman calves, sheathed in leather boots, those Greek shoulders, accented so finely by the linen shirt, perhaps all of him was there to serve a different purpose. She could barely remember what she had come to the stable for.“True.” She struggled to regain her composure. “But it is such a glorious morning, I preferred a walk. And surely...