Word: tailoring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...perhaps Barneys, the bankrupt New York City retailer. The Barneys situation is particularly nasty, with lawsuits flying and all manner of unpleasantries exchanged among Barneys' owners, their landlord and assorted creditors. Yet Barneys remains the most excessively hip retailer in the country. It would seem like a deal tailor-made for the talents of Bernard Arnault...
...truth universally acknowledged that Nordstrom stores have wrapped up the title for top-of-the-line customer service. They will take back returns with a smile, hail you a cab and send out a salesclerk and tailor with armloads of clothes if you're too busy to go shopping. If it's footwear you're after, Nordstrom's vast shoe sections boast up to 150,000 pairs from sizes 4 to 21. "I really like Nordstrom," says Kelly Chandler, 28, a marketing specialist at a Seattle radio station who has shopped at the fashion retailer's flagship store since...
...neighbor--or the average male anywhere on the globe--is a 99.9%-accurate genetic copy of me. And paradoxically, many of the genes we share empower the environment to shape behavior and thus make us different from one another. Natural selection has preserved these "malleability genes" because they adroitly tailor character to circumstance...
...intention is to put several research groups in that space, and we haven't hired the Faculty for those research groups yet, so we will tailor the space to their needs," Long said...
...undated paper cites the 300,000-franc Swiss account of Hitler's tailor...