Word: threaded
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Beacon is a 61-room hotel built by Boston developer Paul Roiff. It aims at the young digerati who jet between high-tech start-ups on both coasts. Rooms have three phone lines, high-speed Internet access, 330-thread-count Italian sheets and lots of mahogany. "There isn't a square of vinyl in the entire hotel," boasts general manager William Sander. Recent guests include film director Wes Craven, Viacom potentate Sumner Redstone and sundry chairmen of American and European banks. Rates start at $395 a night...
...there were so many stories when we formed the circle that it was overwhelming. Harvard students had more stories of rape than any other Take Back the Night that I have attended this year. There were stories about siblings, girlfriends, men and friends from home. There were no threads connecting the stories like the presence of alcohol or anything like that. The only thread was that it was pervasive and nearly everyone in the circle had been through something...
...Crimson defense broke up a pass that Hobart tried to thread though the middle of the field and cleared the ball all the way down to Hobart...
...common thread in these examples is a uniquely European approach to business. While the U.S. has embraced the pure marketplace with ideological fervor, Europeans continue to believe the state has a role to play in guiding markets. Exhibit A is the GSM (global system for mobile communications) standard introduced in the European Union in 1991. Thanks to GSM, a subscriber in Portugal can use her phone from Ireland to Hong Kong. The U.S., in contrast, still allows various incompatible standards to compete like trains running on tracks with different gauges. As a result, a New Yorker cannot use his cell...
...keep her grounded-but then we find out that these girls are also her "personal assistants." Meaning that she forks over a wad of cash and they "draw her baths at the Ritz." Now that's friendship. When traveling, Jennifer "requires that she sleep on sheets with a minimum thread count of 250 and that she be driven in a black Mercedes with a male driver" (hmmmm...). And she has the ability to demand the Body Shop's opening after hours in case she needs an extra canister of "Body Butter...