Word: spa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...retailers are predicting will be a big, bold career. His sexy-but-cerebral aesthetic is catching on with customers outside his traditionally gay following. Already the plucky designs by this graduate of Harvard and the Fashion Institute of Technology have caught the eye of Italian manufacturing giant Genny Holdings SpA, which snapped up the 34-year-old Bartlett for a licensing deal last year after he had been in business on his own for just six years. Now Genny has named Bartlett as the creative director for its Byblos label, unseating more experienced but less flamboyant designer Richard Tyler. This...
...Redmond's critics, it's an abuse of monopoly power. The Active Channel Bar "decreases consumer choice," the Software Publishers Association told the Justice Department. In response, Microsoft said PC makers could sell copies of Win 98 with the channel bar hidden. That wasn't enough for SPA president Ken Wasch, who says, "The channel bar should be completely empty," so anyone other than Microsoft can fill...
...faces the hostile glare of investigators on one front, Microsoft has lost a foothold on another: Bob Herbold, its candidate for one of six open slots on the board of the Software Publishers Association was rejected yesterday. It's especially galling considering that, with IBM, Microsoft is the SPA's largest dues payer, laying out $100,000 a year to be a member of an organization that lately has been increasingly critical of Microsoft...
...five daily guided outings--by car, foot, mountain bike, boat or horse. The park is a 600,000-acre, UNESCO-declared biosphere where flamingos, black swans, llamas and condors thrive amid emerald lakes, glaciers, fjords and floating icebergs. At day's end guests can relax at the health spa with a Thai massage or a dip in the outdoor Jacuzzi. At mealtime they gaze out at the Salto Chico waterfall as white-jacketed waiters bring plates of fresh salmon or Patagonian lamb and bottles of fine Chilean wine...
Last February, Congress Watch documented a typical outing. The Tobacco Institute flew 11 members, including Republican House leaders Tom DeLay and John Boehner, to the Phoenician, a Scottsdale, Arizona resort, for a "legislative conference," complete with morning seminars on the harmlessness of nicotine and afternoons free for golf and spa treatments at the Centre for Well-Being, at a cost of $62,890. There's no linkage, of course, but five months later the Republican leadership slipped a $50 billion tax break for tobacco into the budget bill. (By contrast, Espy's Agriculture Department actually tightened poultry regulation...