Word: suits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans they met. In Atlanta, Keigo Yamada, executive managing director of Ito-Yokado, a chain of discount department stores with an annual sales volume of $1.3 billion, shied away from a meal of grits and complained that he was meeting the wrong people. Yamada wanted American sportswear modified to suit Japanese tastes and sizes but, he says, was told "that they would have to ask their supervisors in New York." A Mitsubishi buyer offered Jose Lopez of the Atlanta-based Salvatori Corp. $3 apiece for men's ties that normally sell for $4.25. The hagglers finally struck a deal...
Bradlee: You're trying to buy news and withhold it to suit your convenience...
...socialism. The growing tax burden apparently prompted segments of the working class to vote conservative in the last two parliamentary elections. A more widespread form of protest is tax evasion. One method is to avoid cash transactions whenever possible. A clothier and a farmer, for example, exchange a new suit and a side of beef; a dentist fills the teeth of an auto mechanic in return for a car lubrication. Another method is "black labor." Example: a company wishing to redecorate its offices pays cash for the work, but does not record the transaction; the decorator pockets the entire amount...
...dancing shoes, then she clearly has lots of brains. George Melrod, as the lawyer, gets to display his comic talents to advantage in this act, and George W. Hunt, as Susie's hobo, makes the switch easily into hotel magnate, maintaining a boyish charm despite his three-piece suit, and eliciting as many chuckles as anyone in the cast...
Jonathan R. Beckwith '57, professor of Microbiology and Modern Genetics at the Med School, said yesterday he filed the suit in response to claims of a soon-to-be published book that doctors secretly created a human baby through cloning...