Word: tailoring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...semi-retired. He dresses in a simple white dhoti and lives frugally. "I only need money for the barber and occasionally the tailor," he says, laughing. He rises at 4:30 a.m., milks his cow and prays until breakfast time. Only then does he resume his ongoing effort to improve the Jaipur foot and create new artificial limbs that will be as real and useful as humanly possible...
While the defense has been glued to the television watching a heavy dose of film starring Abdullah and a supporting cast of nifty bootlegs and playaction schemes intended for the speedy Braswell, the offense has found little need to tailor a specific strategy for the game...
...Harrods, he owns the famed humor magazine Punch, the Fulham Football Club and Balnagow castle in Scotland; his millions have sponsored the annual Royal Windsor Horse Show, where he has shared the royal box with the Queen. Al Fayed's younger brother Ali owns Turnbull & Asser, the prestigious tailor used by Prince Charles and his sons William and Harry. And al Fayed has long courted Diana and her parents; he put her stepmother Raine on the board of Harrods. Diana's father Earl Spencer, while dying, reportedly told al Fayed to "keep an eye" on the family...
...next American to live on Mir, the Russian space station, won't be going because, at 5 ft. 3 in., she's too short to fit into the Russian space suits. Her place will be taken by David Wolf, who's 5 ft. 10 in.--tailor-made for the bulky suits in case he's called upon to take a walk outside...
...petition calls for the department to tailor the general exam to address issues covered in a student's thesis and course work...