Word: soles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sole deviations were the red suspenders worn by Jim Battell, a Navy veteran who owns a music store, and an embossed pig on McGarrell...
...anything in a family partnership, including the family business. For most, though, here's how it works: You designate a brokerage account and then stuff it with stocks, bonds and other securities. You are the general partner and sole stockholder; your heirs become limited partners. Each year you can give limited partners family-partnership stock valued at a maximum of $10,000. But remember, the partnership stock represents assets worth more than $10,000. Thus you shield a larger part of your estate. And if you're a control freak, the best part is that only you, the general partner...
...fashionistas' buttons, but the firm has been buffeted by other ill winds, from the ongoing trial in Italy of Patrizia Gucci (charged with murdering her ex-spouse Maurizio Gucci, grandson of the company's founder) to worries about the fallout from the Asian financial crisis. Last September, when De Sole announced that profits growth for 1997 would be lower than expected, Gucci stock plummeted almost 20% in one day. Sure enough, the company announced last week that this year's first-quarter net profit had dropped 10% from last year, from $48 million to $43.1 million. On top of this...
...bags and put their bamboo handles on them; they did our high-gloss calfskin--they started using all our materials," he said. "It doesn't make sense. Gucci should follow its own strategy, not mine." Such bluster, says a Gucci spokesman, is common among fashion designers. Ford and De Sole have ignored...
...many of TIME's readers who wrote in response to Steve Lopez's well-crafted and balanced story about my search for my two daughters [SOCIETY, May 11] just don't get it. Whether readers love me, hate me or believe I'm arrogant doesn't really matter. My sole concern is for my two little girls, abducted illegally by their mother, my ex-wife, nearly a year ago. My heart breaks when I ponder where they are running to now. How will this end? How will this emotionally affect two innocent children? What lessons are we teaching our children...