Word: stroke
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Mark's launch is just the latest stroke in Avon's corporate makeover. Under the leadership of CEO Andrea Jung, who took over in 1999, the once dated Avon is "now an accepted fashion brand," says Steele. Among Jung's moves: introducing dozens of new products, including an antiaging skin-care line; starting an e-commerce website; and aggressively expanding overseas, especially in such emerging markets as Eastern Europe and Latin America. "A mother has to be healthy to birth a child," Jung says. "Our parent company has never been in better shape...
...study card day but make them significantly worse. I had four years to deal with Cornell’s maddening CourseEnroll, and am delighted now by the relative ease of study cards. Online course enrollment, in truth, is a matter of sitting by your computer, waiting for the stroke of midnight so that you can hope to actually get into your classes by acting fast, and then tapping your fingers for at least 25 stressful minutes, clicking again and again while the server fails to connect. It’s worse than calling a concert ticket hotline on the first...
...we’re grateful for a safe community in which to do this. But Drag Night doesn’t always foster the kind of freedom and diversity it purports to. Prince Charming may get some fake boobs to be beautiful for a few hours, but by the stroke of midnight, his stubble returns and he changes back into a man, his masculinity intact. So the question is, does Drag Night really allow us to play around with such entrenched categories as male and female? Or is it the kind of fun that only perpetuates these categories...
Veljkovik recounts how he was only a toddler when his father abandoned the family, leaving his mother alone to care for her young son. At the age of eight, Veljkovik came to bear an adult burden when his mother suffered a severe stroke. “She was paralyzed, “ says Veljkovik. “I looked after my mother—changing her clothes, taking care of her.” Veljkovik’s mother suffered another stroke as he entered his freshman year of high school; she passed away shortly thereafter...
...first time I ever saw it was in Sports Illustrated,” Shaw said. “We were smooth because we were smooth on the water, but off the water, there were some antics. Even on the water, our stroke, Al Shealy, was pretty rude. When we went by a boat, he’d be yelling ‘So long suckers...