Word: suits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bosket has now filed a suit against his surrogate mother, charging cruel and unusual punishment at Woodbourne. He is also angry because the authorities have ignored an eight-page handwritten letter in which Bosket volunteered himself for study as a way to help prevent future Boskets. "It's all just theater to Willie, and we try not to give him a stage," says Thomas Coughlin III, New York's commissioner of correctional services...
...unreal. But the second car's arrival forced me to take it more seriously. I hoped the police were not prepared to "apprehend the perpetrators." There were several inaudible words over the walkie-talkie, then I heard "dark clothes..." I cursed myself for not being dressed in a bright suit...
Flawlessly attired in a black Chanel suit, Frances Lear gazes for a moment out her office window at the Madison Avenue traffic below. Then, whippet-like, she whirls to confront the semicircle of editors at her morning story conference. "What's the word we want?" she asks. Through owlish goggles she scrutinizes their faces, as if seeing them for the first time. Before anyone can answer, she darts to her chair and provocatively settles her slender black-stockinged legs on a cluttered coffee table. She sits stiffly, ladylike. Her expressive hands, with their buffed, not polished nails, beat...
...lost civilization: pre-Thatcher Britain. Life isn't much like that anymore. Ten years after Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister, an episode far more characteristic of the present moment, and also true, is seeing a waiter from a fancy restaurant chasing up the street after a pinstripe suit, waving a small object, shouting "Sir! Sir! You left your telephone on the table...
...capital structure will bolster a company war chest that already holds $4 billion in cash. The money will come in handy at a time when international pharmaceutical giants are scrambling to join forces. Hoffmann-La Roche, whose strong suit is prescription products, still smarts from its failure last year to acquire New York City-based Sterling Drug, the maker of Bayer aspirin, Phillips milk of magnesia and other popular over-the-counter brands. Sterling spurned the Hoffmann-La Roche offer and sold out to Eastman Kodak instead. "We wanted primarily to establish ourselves in the American over-the-counter market...