Word: suited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shirted president was eager to give a casual, friendly air to this summit--an event which, nevertheless, crackled with symbolism for the future. While most of the attendees humored Clinton by dressing down, China's President Jiang Zemin was a notable exception: He chose to remain in his business suit...
...lovely, mild day, and the line is about 150 people long. There are matronly women and miniskirted girls, jeans-clad students and a mustachioed man in black suit and white socks -- a peasant in his Sunday Mass outfit. Robert, from the town of Plock, is among those in line. "I came to seek a visa because in Poland, there are very limited prospects of acquiring anything by work," he says. "I expect a different existence in America. I make about $200 a month. I wonder whether anybody would work for $200 a month...
...speak each group's language and know their customs. "This is the era of ethnic marketing," says Gary Berman, president of Market Segment Research, a consumer specialist in Coral Gables, Florida. "Mass marketing worked when America was a cultural melting pot. But now you need a different message to suit the taste of each group...
...days after telling reporters about spending $500,000 to suppress black- voter turnout during the New Jersey gubernatorial race, Republican strategist Edward Rollins gave a deposition to the New Jersey State Democratic Committee, which has filed a civil suit against the campaign of Governor-elect Christine Todd Whitman. Rollins said Friday his original story was a lie, concocted as a "head game" with rival political consultant James Carville...
...ferocity without effort, can smilingly backhand reader or character into a tumbled heap. But she uses this violent gift in a curiously selective way. At the outset of The Shipping News, she demeans her hero, a blobby, unfocused man named Quoyle, as "a dog dressed in a man's suit for a comic photo," who possesses "a great damp loaf of a body." His faithless wife is "thin, moist, hot . . . in another time, another sex, she would have been a Genghis Khan." After they marry, her "desire reversed to detestation like a rubber glove turned inside out." But as Quoyle...