Word: toga
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...WELCOME TO SPARTA Forget the toga parties, concierge services and fruit bowls in the office. For most workers, those perks fluttered away after the Clinton boom years and probably won't return, benefits consultants say. Under the new regime, you may not be allowed to dial directory assistance at work, as some employees at Credit Suisse First Boston have discovered. Fewer companies are letting workers keep the frequent-flyer miles they rack up on business travel. DaimlerChrysler, which routinely paid $100 bonuses to corporate-sales folks who sold a car to a retail customer, has eliminated the extra cash reward...
...birthday cake with pyrotechnic bosoms; a troupe of shapely, toga-clad dancers; a Jimmy Buffett concert--who knew there was such a variety of ways to exhibit poor judgment? Jurors in the trial of former Tyco CEO DENNIS KOZLOWSKI, flanked here by a pair of hired Roman revelers, watched a 21-minute videotape last week of a $2 million birthday party Kozlowski threw for his wife on the Italian island of Sardinia in 2001. Kozlowski, who stuck his firm with half the tab for the blowout, is accused of bilking Tyco out of $600 million. He appears on the tape...
...knew that my room had forever changed my outlook this spring, when I stood at the threshold of my room during the last moments of my 23rd birthday party. Aaron had convinced me to make my birthday bash a toga-only affair, and I walked into my room as the crowds cleared and the din of Cher died down somewhere in a darkened dance room. My own bedroom has become somewhat of a lounge meant to exude the vibe of sex—red cellophane draped the lights, and Morcheeba crooned jazzy lyrics from my laptop speakers. As I loosened...
After a frenzied day of shaved eyebrows, toga-donning and desperate calls to the agent of Conan O’Brien ’85, the first-ever first-year scavenger hunt came to a close Monday night...
Last year, the company performed Julius Caesar, in which the would-be emperor, clad in a sequined blue toga, died of a paper cut and Brutus and Antony played rock-paper-scissors for the rule of Rome...