Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weekday afternoon in a fashionable men's shop in Atlanta, Lynne Henderson stands in front of the three-sided mirror next to her client, a landscape architect named Tom, leading him through a drastic image upgrade. Back in December a traveling image consultant gave a presentation in Atlanta, and Tom showed up with two business suits for a critique. "He told me to burn everything," says Tom. "But not in an offensive way." He has hired Henderson, whose London Image Institute is based in nearby Alpharetta, to help him rise out of the ashes...
...mirror, Tom's eyes flick nervously toward Henderson, seeking rescue. She has plucked him out of the familiar styles he settled on back when a pair of Weejuns cost $20, and he is lost among the choices. The first sweater he bought with Henderson's help struck him as so ugly, so splotched with color, that he left it hanging in his room for a week. But people loved it, people who'd never looked at him twice, except in dismay. So he is meekly agreeable when Henderson puts him in a midnight blue Giorgio Armani suit with tone...
...minimum-wage jobs. Several studies have found that the full blossoming of a high-tech economy comes only after it receives a heavy dose of defense contracts. The bulk of that money currently goes to the country's heavily populated coastal regions, which have the most congressional representation. Says Tom Daniels, associate professor of regional and community planning at Kansas State: "Look where all the defense dollars are going, and you can see we are creating a bicoastal economy...
Minnesota earned a bye in the first round with its number-two seed. The Golden Gophers will be led by the well-rested skates of junior Captain Dave Snuggerud (27-19--46). Also expected to fill the rope basket are junior wingmen Tom Chorske (24-17--41) and Peter Hankinson (15-26--41). If Wisconsin has gained a mental edge by handily defeating the Saints, then Minnesota may have a physical advantage after resting sores and bruises over the mini-layoff...
...integrated house," says Tom B. Mitevski '90, of North. "People say hi, hello, how are you. People are very close. It's not the same feeling in the river...