Word: suits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sense of history, the fountain pen has been the stylus of choice since 1884, when the first workable model was invented by L.E. Waterman, a New York City insurance salesman. Its undisputed flow dried up 60 years later, when, thinking "time is money," the man in the gray flannel suit ushered in the ball point pen introducing a new level of corporatization and homogenization to America. In the years following, America flourished as the most visionary of the throwaway societies. Disposable pens were the greatest giveaway since the advent of the key party...
Gregory Slayton, CEO of ClickAction Inc., is also running George W. Bush's Silicon Valley campaign, and he's convened a group of 30 well-scrubbed executives for a breakfast at Scott's Seafood Restaurant in Palo Alto. Slayton is decked out in a dark blue suit and a SILICON VALLEY BUSH 2000 baseball cap. When he laughs, he throws his head back and rolls his weight onto his heels. He greets guests by simultaneously shaking their hands, slapping their backs and bellowing, "Buddyhowareyagoodtoseeyouman!" Watching him, it's easy to forget that it is not yet 8 in the morning...
...each other. Now the officer of the peace has declared war, filing a $10 million lawsuit against the singer for slander, mental anguish and emotional and physical distress. At a news conference held in London last week to promote NetAid, a concert to benefit Kosovo refugees, Michael called the suit a "minor irritation" and promised tabloid reporters he'd speak with each of them personally on any topic if they gave the conference adequate coverage. One hopes he has learned to do that for himself as well...
...glad that Handspring finally unveiled its glorious personal digital assistant last week. Now--maybe--I won't have to write about PDAs for a while. I am sick of them, frankly. That type of appliance just doesn't suit me. As a writer, Web browser and unrepentant Quake player, I'm strictly a laptop kind of guy. I demand more screen real estate than you get on a device small enough to fit in your shirt pocket. Also, I don't have enough friends or business associates to necessitate an e-address book...
...James Meredith was integrating Ole Miss). In the fullness of time, he became a born-again Christian and crusading lawyer who took up the cause of Nathan Horton, a black carpenter and contractor who smoked two packs of Pall Malls a day, developed emphysema and lung cancer and filed suit against the American Tobacco Co. for $1.5 million in damages in 1986. Horton died in early 1987, but Barrett and the Horton family kept up the fight...