Word: suited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...keep his operation afloat over the years, the often broke adventurer created some 35 different investment schemes, including one drawn up on a cocktail napkin. Last November six shareholders filed suit in a Florida court, charging they did not receive their fair share of the treasure. Still, the plaintiffs could take some consolation from the Christie's sale. A gold chain that belonged to one of them went...
...shared tastes, good and bad. Thus when staid comrades bent to the lighthearted task of choosing 16-year-old Maria Kalinina in a bathing suit as Miss Moscow last week, the world could afford to relax a little. It will relax still more if next week's party conference keeps its promise of liberalizing Soviet society -- even if delegates do not snake-dance down the aisles in funny hats amid balloons and confetti, as their American counterparts will be doing later this summer in Atlanta and New Orleans...
Giorgio was the pioneer of scent strips, but more than a dozen other manufacturers have followed suit, since the tactic seems to work wonders. Fragrance sales, which fell in the early 1980s, have steadily risen for the past five years, according to the Fragrance Foundation. Scent strips have become so effective that they are challenging department stores as the primary means for introducing and sampling new fragrances. For readers who cannot make it to the nearest posh department store, the ads provide a toll-free 800 number to call to buy the product from the privacy of their living room...
...blow the whistle on their employer: they told federal investigators that Ashland Oil had paid bribes to Middle Eastern government officials to obtain crude supplies. Before long, McKay and Williams were fired, and their comfortable lives began to come apart. Unable to find jobs in the industry, they filed suit in 1984 against Ashland, charging that they were unfairly dismissed merely for telling the truth...
...ever begrudged the artist his success. Hockney is that rarity, a painter of strong talent and indefatigable industry who has never struck the wearisome pose of il maestro and has been grounded, throughout his career, in the bedrock of Yorkshire common sense. Self-mockery may not be his long suit, but Hockney is the least arrogant of men, and his achievement, uneven though it looks, is a distinguished one. It can be assayed in the retrospective of some 200 works -- paintings, prints, drawings, photocollages, stage designs -- that, having originally been put together by the Los Angeles County Museum...