Word: put
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...globe trotting ended and her big-time career began when she was promoted into fragrances. Bloomingdale's vice president Myron Blumenfeld, now retired, was "astonished at the way she could handle people older and more sophisticated than she was. She put issues in front of people and never let the meeting wander...
...marketing strategy, wretched relations with stores and a disgusted muse, Klein himself. In fact the designer refused to meet Burns for several months, but she went about her job anyway. To her the Obsession launch remains the high point of her professional life. She had, as usual, put together a team that was superenergized and fanatically devoted. Kim Delsing, Burns' successor as Calvin Klein president, says, "It was like the kids running the zoo. Robin had the ability to let her mind go -- What if we did this? What if? What...
...OPEC oil is paid for in U.S. dollars, which in recent months have depreciated against other major currencies. Japan can well absorb a price increase because of its enormous trade surplus, which it would like to whittle down anyway. Moreover, after the price shocks of 1973 and '79, Japan put the brakes on oil consumption, mainly through a serious conservation regimen, and did not release those brakes after the crises...
...case has caused many to take a second look at the methods for investigating allegations of child abuse. It spurred a national debate about appropriate methods for eliciting testimony from children. It has left many of the children and their parents bitter. And it put Ray Buckey in jail for five years without a conviction. "I don't think anybody won in the McMartin case," Buckey says now. But quite a few people lost...
...clearer view of the country. Warren Burger, who wrote the opinion that freed up the Watergate tapes, was appointed with much fanfare by Richard Nixon himself. Arthur Goldberg resigned at Lyndon Johnson's urging to become United Nations ambassador. L.B.J. twisted the arm of his crony Abe Fortas and put him in Goldberg's place. But when he tried to move Fortas up to Chief Justice, the fear of cronyism generated so much opposition that Johnson abandoned the maneuver. Later, because of financial improprieties, Fortas resigned his court seat...