Word: tad
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...five years this month in New York City. While price points for the line range from $100 to $600, Azria branched out in 2001 with an eponymous designer brand in the area of $300 to $2,000. "We did it for more freedom," he says. "It can be a tad fashion-forward, and we can play. There are no restrictions." Last month he opened the runway line's first flagship, a 2,700-sq.-ft. boutique on Hollywood's Melrose Avenue that resembles an artist's studio, with four more locations to come later this year. In 2004 he launched...
...James Cagney machine-gunned his way to stardom with The Public Enemy and other gangster movies in the early '30s. Immediately he agitated his studio, Warners, for more varied roles. Twice he took a voluntary suspension to make his point, returning each time for a higher salary and a tad more creative input. He left Warners again in 1936 and put himself on the open market. Though Cagney was a major star, the big studios stayed away from him, fearful that if one actor could dent the system, anarchy would ensue. He made one picture for tiny Grand National...
...teachers see to the education of more than 5,000 boys. Karr worked at the school for two weeks in June as a first-grade English teacher. He seemed both polite and articulate, says Chompowong, but was fired at the end of his two-week trial for being a tad too strict...
...Jews do that too? I'm considering Joe Crockett. I also like the sound of Johnny Slayer. Plus, coming up with 14 million new names will be a kind of WPA project for all the Jewish writers. Because we have to back off the controlling-the-media thing a tad...
Conversely, short-term cash instruments haven't looked this good in years. Simple, safe money-market funds now yield a healthy 5%--not bad in an uncertain environment in which Treasury bonds yield just a tad more and corporate profits are likely to downshift from double-digit growth to the 6%-to-8% range. For the past few months, money funds have had the best returns of the major asset classes. It used to be tough to find much more than a 1% money-fund yield."Having liquidity and getting 5% are a big deal," says Peter Crane, president...