Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...that it is hard to persuade prisoners "to wear the little red nose and the funny hair." In fact, the inmates wear their own clothes and are routinely warned to use sunscreen to protect themselves from the hot summer sun. Meals are served at picnic tables, portable toilets are set up near the tent, and prisoners sleep on military cots. Says Marshal Carr, serving a sentence for driving under the influence: "It's fun really. I use it to catch up on my sleep and get away from my old lady...
...scarves account for 43% of Hermes sales. But Dumas is channeling growth into new areas by acquiring such choice firms as John Lobb, the prestigious British shoemaker, and Cristalleries de St. Louis, the 223-year- old French glassware manufacturer. Fancy a pair of calfskin-clad garden shears? (They will set you back $475.) A jungle-print bath towel? ($525.) A suitcase made of carbon fiber, adapted from the sheathing on the European Space Agency's Ariane rocket? ($5,450.) Dumas has expanded the product line to 30,000 items...
...simply blew it off through bad management," says economist Edmar Bacha of the Pontifical Catholic University in Rio. "That gave the impression that the rich got away with it again." The meltdown of the program rekindled inflation, which more than tripled to a rate of 12.9% last month. That set off new price hikes, which led workers to demand salary increases and wage indexation...
...with a set of green, yellow and blue behind him, McCartney tried to re-create the mood that the crowd had come to experience. "Now we are going back in time to the Sixties," said McCartney with a smile, launching into a convincing rendition of "Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band...
...Set in the midst of a heated campaign for the district attorney's seat, the movie begins with incumbent Raymond Horgan (Brian Dennehy) losing ground to the challenger, Nico Della Guardia (Tom Mardirosian). Horgan needs something quick and sensational, he thinks, to halt his slide...