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...break in life - the twist that put her on the path to a snug house in the suburbs with a vaulted living-room ceiling - was the product of these two qualities, the work ethic and the gift of gab. As a free-spirited young woman, Stevens liked working in hip restaurants and bars where musicians would hang out when their tours passed through Kansas City. Bonnie Raitt, the Doobie Brothers. "Those boys from Lynyrd Skynyrd," as she now calls them, arrived after closing time at a joint where she worked and smashed some things when she refused to serve them...
Hibermate The interior of this handcrafted sleep mask feels like it's stitched out of the downiest fleece, while the satin exterior slips easily against surfaces so the Hibermate stays put if you toss and turn. The snug fit was a little too much for this bear, since my eyelids flit and flutter as I fall asleep, and I had some issues adjusting the mask at the bridge of my nose for total darkness. While the two ear "pillows" - both detachable and adjustable - are intended to block sound, I was glad the package came with real ear plugs. The fleece...
...served a 17-month prison sentence for attempting to escape the GDR. Still, he's nostalgic for the old East, which is why he's a regular at "Zur Firma," an East Berlin pub whose theme derives from the GDR's feared secret police organization, the Stasi. "I feel snug in this place," says Hans-Holger. "Ostalgia is better than what we have today...
...snug in the heart of London's burgeoning financial quarter, how about this for a customer-growth strategy: "We don't want to get bigger," says Hoare. "The bigger you are, the more risk you have of a reputational accident because you weren't able to oversee [the business] properly." So, at roughly 10,000-strong, C. Hoare & Co.'s customer base has reached its limits. Those that do make it in tend to be very well-heeled: investment portfolios at the bank average $1.5 million, while basic account holders maintain balances of anywhere from $2 million in the black...
...Democrats didn’t see it coming. Snug with their 6-3 majorities on both boards, the Democrats outnumbered Republicans in registered voters by almost two to one, raised $30,000 more than their opponents, and even had the district’s Congressman John B. Larson (D-Conn.) stump for their inevitable victory. When the tallies tipped to the GOP, the Democrats were shocked: “I don’t have any thoughts or wisdom on why that happened,” Democratic candidate Dave Sheridan confessed...