Liz Claiborne's declines were offset slightly by sales of the company's Kate Spade brand, which increased comparative sales by 44% during the quarter.
But let's call a spade a spade: These are advertisements aimed at building brand recognition among public radio's affluent, educated audience.
Absolutely, let's call a spade a spade, a gun a gun, missile a missile, a cluster bomb a child-killer and a Tactica armoured car a means of brutal civilian repression when it's deployed by the Saudis to support the undemocratic government in Bahrain.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt ("Can't Hardly Wait"), Sarah Michelle Gellar of Fox's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer, " David Spade (NBC's "Just Shoot Me") and martial arts movie star Jackie Chan were on the list.
The similarly designed mashie niblick was today's seven iron, the spade mashie a six iron.
Virtually every morning, it seems, image-makers in the gainful employ of opposition leader Tony Abbott and Prime Minister Julia Gillard conjure up some kind of unimaginative photo-opportunity, where their leaders appear brandishing a blow-torch, a spade, a butcher's knife, an on-button or some kind of piece of light industrial machinery.
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But did they come up with it before the Maltese Falcon of (Sam) Spade or (Han) Solo's time?
"It is an honor that Sasha Obama chose to wear Kate Spade New York, " said the company's creative director, Deborah Lloyd, in an email to the Associated Press.
Now that someone in the U.S. government has finally had the guts to call a spade a spade, there are both winners and losers from an investment perspective.
The recent Flowering Spade is Hayes' fifth album, but it's his first bona fide studio recording.
And I think the vote tally today is likely to sharp their sense that Majority Leader Bill Frist, who's seeking their support for White House bid, has not done kind of the spade work in his caucus that was needed for a better outcome.
S. honcho Michael McKean and his suck-up underling (the hilariously fey David Spade), the supercompetent Coneheads assume the coloration of the suburban American middle class and turn illegal-alien stereotypes on their pointy heads.
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