Word: umbrellaism
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...overcrowded as usual last October with prospective foreign buyers of toys, clothing, shoes and handbags. But there was a difference, say businessmen who attended. "A lot of purchasers came to negotiate, but they didn't want to pay the higher prices," says Zhen Dahui, an executive for an umbrella-and-handbag manufacturer in China's Fujian province, complaining that his firm did fewer deals than usual...
...agreed this past December and tentatively rejected Virgin America's application on the grounds that the use of the resources of the British umbrella-company Virgin Group--to develop a business plan, buy planes and solicit U.S. investors--didn't sufficiently recede when U.S. executives took over, and that there are still examples, including the licensing agreement to use the Virgin brand, of foreigners holding too much sway...
...Widener. It has been unseasonably warm. Best g-chat away messages: “Jamaica Kincaid forgot it was Martin Luther King Day. Amazing.” and “my second time in this neighborhood without my numchucks. i am not happy.” Get an umbrella...
Kevin Paik ’07 narrowly escaped an attempted robbery on Monday in Harvard Yard after being struck in the head with the wooden handle of an umbrella, and police say the suspects were also the perpetrators of the Saturday afternoon knifepoint robbing of a male sophomore at Widener Gate. These events mark two daytime assaults on an undergraduate in the Yard that have occured in the span of three days...
...They took advantage of the fact that now there weren’t that many people around,” Paik said. “The taller one swung an umbrella really hard at the top of my head...