Word: stinks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...outcome was merely a big stink: losses that approached $25 million by the end of 1990. Now Bic will officially pull the plug on its perfume line at / the stockholders' meeting later this month. Bad reviews were only part of the problem. Bic may have ultimately been undone by the simple but deadly logic of snob appeal -- namely, it is not luxury that makes things expensive, but expense that makes things luxurious...
...chairman of Tulane University's political science department is no academic bomb thrower. But when Paul Lewis looked closely at the "initiatives for the race and gender enrichment" of the university proposed by a faculty committee -- well, he says, "I raised a stink." The plan implied a quota system for hiring more black and female teachers and the appointment within all departments of "race and gender liaison persons," whom Lewis likens to political commissars. Thanks largely to the challenge he organized, Lewis is a controversial figure at Tulane, but the initiatives are now being revised. "I never even heard...
Roby was obviously being facetious. No, really. You could tell. Pack and Cooper stink. Why else would Raveling call time out to scream unprintable things at them near midcourt...
...only did his squad stink up Harvard Stadium, but he had to watch his language complaining about...
Roby was obviously being facetious. No, really. You could tell. Pack and Cooper stink. Why else would Raveling call time out to scream unprintable things at them near midcourt...