Word: workmanship
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Through beautiful fabrics, fine workmanship, showmanship and oneupmanship, the grande dame of Paris fashion survived yet another season. As Pierre Cardin put it, "We needed to insert a little oxygen into haute couture. " Next time around they may need plasma...
...journal presents papers from a conference on adulthood, the second on problems of public policy. Unfortunately, none of these articles really comes to terms with or provides any new visions of American civilization. In fact, there is an astonishing amount of re-hash, unoriginal thinking and just plain shoddy workmanship by many of the dozen authors involved in this issue...
...work, students will form a small company, buy a rundown house, spend three hours a week fixing it up, and then try to sell it. The university aims to teach that "there is still worth in the old notions of independence, pride in workmanship and craftsmanship." Perhaps self-reliance is a trait that can not be taught as a sort of fourth R, but a university determined to give students the broadest outlook could hardly try to teach anything more important...
Repairs on the tunnel have been an issue between the University and the city for a number of years, and last fall the city threatened to sue Harvard for alleged faulty workmanship in the University's construction of the underpass...
...sack. But those who in their own lives have since gained by shorter hours, better quarters, safer conditions and coffee breaks have also lost something when they in turn become customers and consumers: a decline in store manners and helpfulness, clothes and articles more carelessly made, service and workmanship less dependable. One man's easier life is bought with another's frustrations...