Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still another admired project was Franklin Court in Philadelphia. To recall the original Benjamin Franklin house and printing shop, the architects designed a full-size framework above the archaeological remains of the real house. Built for the Bicentennial celebrations in 1976, Franklin Court attracts some 500,000 visitors a year...
...some big companies are fighting back. They are trying to create the spirit, zest and rewards of entrepreneurship right in their corridors, shop floors and laboratories. They are giving employees the resources and freedom to pursue their own ideas, cutting back on traditional red tape, endless meetings and other obstacles that can slow down innovation...
...design, form and their personality and character," says Unger. "They all have individuality, just like the people who choose them." They can also have repair problems. Unger, like many other dealers, gives a year's guarantee, but prospective owners may fairly be warned to line up a repair shop that knows how to do more than change a battery or install a new quartz movement. "Sometimes it's difficult to find the parts for the old watches," says Tony Di Leonardo of Manhattan's highly regarded Raymond C. Falt watch company. "But the most trouble I see is from watches...
...more formal Regan shop, news leaks may be fewer and public insights into the internal workings of the White House more limited. Regan once ordered two of his senior Treasury deputies to clear their press contacts through his trusted public affairs assistant, Ann McLaughlin. (McLaughlin, now Interior Department Under Secretary, is a leading candidate to become Regan's deputy at the White House.) While Regan can turn on his gruff charm and provide as lively an interview as anyone else in the Administration, he is seldom inclined to do so. In sharp contrast to Baker, whose mastery of keeping...
...times almost treacly. They call each other by diminutives: he's "Ronnie" and often she's "Mommy." At their California ranch, they paddle together in a canoe named TruLuv that was a 25th-anniversary present from "Ronnie." Every July on Nancy's birthday, Reagan calls David Jones' Hollywood flower shop and has a bouquet sent to Edith Davis, his mother-in-law. Says the florist: "He thanks her for giving him Nancy." Last Election Day, when the First Lady was still wobbly from a bad bump on the head received two days earlier, the President fretted so much that...