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...some sort of dope. He'd open his eyes and they would roll to the back of his head." Rehak adds: "He had this real stringy beard. His hair was down over his shoulders. He stood up and fumbled with his old bathrobe-didn't have a stitch on underneath-and that's when I noticed his long toenails. They were so long they curled...
...leadership. Right now they will accept even a Lee Kuan Yew or a Chung Hee Park. They will accept a diminution in civil liberties if only these are properly explained to them. You can cut corners now." Marcos had cut the corners all right, but whether he could stitch them together again remained to be seen...
Farber's says that the University has several other possible courses of action from selling the stock. He points to several areas where Gulf could be influenced to change its practice such as stitch as hiring and benefits for black African employees, charitable donations and new investment in Angola...
Ling, who had made it out of dirt-poor Oklahoma roots to build a successful electronics company, had enough vision for everybody. Other men had swapped complex packages of securities in their companies to stitch together glorious empires. Ling could do all that and make it sound different and better. When making presentations to potential merger partners, he would take a piece of chalk or a felt pen and sketch marvelous projections of future earnings. He sounded like a cross between an evangelist and Univac. Not even the financial experts fully grasped how Ling intended to meet his predictions...
...until recently there was a long lag between the appearance of a new style and its patterned reproduction. Now companies frequently turn out paper copies of Paris originals within weeks of a showing, long before ready-to-wear has even finished the basting. The home sewer, able to stitch in time, thus can stay in fashion more readily than her friends who wear store-bought frocks. She can make just about anything, too. There are now patterns for panty hose, lingerie and bathing suits as well as men's suits, shirts and overcoats. Butterick even has Stitch...