Word: turkeys
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...collect a larger profit margin and keep an even closer watch on quality. At the Polo plant, some 225 workers turn out 350 jackets and suits a day. Lauren's best Italian-wool suits ($1,200) are handmade by 25 highly skilled tailors, usually immigrants from Italy, Turkey or West Germany...
...much more. The ancient ship, whose origin Bass has not disclosed, was crammed with bronze, tin, glass, gold, quartz, weapons and dozens of amphoras (pottery jugs) containing goods ranging from frankincense to fruit seeds. "It was like a floating supermarket," says Yasar Yildiz, the deputy director of Turkey's Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology, which is giving vital support to the INA expedition. "This wreck is more than we could hope for," says Archaeologist Cemal Pulak, Bass's assistant. "It is giving us all % kinds of new information about people's lives in this area in 1400 B.C., what goods...
Halfway around the world from Turkey, other nautical archaeologists were at work last April off Vanikoro, a 300-sq.-mi. island in the southwestern Pacific's Solomon chain. The setting was pure Indiana Jones: mosquito-infested jungles; rivers teeming with crocodiles; heavy, brooding clouds hovering over an inhospitable landscape...
...often well over 50%. One study cited by Alice Glenn, a breakaway member of parliament from FitzGerald's Fine Gael party, revealed that 93% of divorced women with children in the U.S. live below the poverty line. "A woman voting for divorce," Glenn often repeated, "is like a turkey voting for Christmas...
Chowing Down. Warmer traditions do survive. In the small Mississippi town of Indianola, there were plenty of home-cooked casseroles and ham and turkey platters at the rehearsal dinner before the May 24 wedding of Ann Delinda Thompson and Kenneth Orlando Thomas, both 25. The food was prepared by friends and neighbors and certified good enough to compete with any catered affair. Even the cake was made locally, although it was the kind of extravaganza that looks like an honors project at a baking school: three small cakes surrounded a central four-layer job, with stairways from level to level...