• Christie quickly became a YouTube star with his town hall dressing down of a complaining public school teacher.

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  • Image consultants say that their most important advice on dressing down is that grooming becomes more, not less, important.

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  • But we were there when the editor, ashen-faced, took a phone call from her that was obviously a dressing down.

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  • Starr also advises against dressing down on the weekends or when traveling.

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  • For years the fashion pundits have been predicting that the phenomenon known as dressing down would clobber the up-market men's clothing makers.

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  • And, like Jack Welch, the boss of General Electric, Sir Martin is famous for dressing down subordinates, with phone calls at 2 am and e-mails fired off at all hours.

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  • The Toffees boss also revealed it took a half-time dressing down to inspire Everton to a win against Middlesbrough and reach an FA Cup semi-final for the first time in 14 years.

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  • Dressing down is not in the Florentine vocabulary.

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  • Tarantino himself may be tired of discussing it - just ask Channel 4's Krishnan Guru-Murthy, who got a stern dressing down during an interview last week - but Waltz defends the guts and gore.

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  • Back then, the inventively trashy filmmaker John Waters was having campy fun with early-'60s hair and fashion, and with his cross-dressing hausfrau, but he was also dressing down a certain set of early-'60s attitudes about conformity and racial segregation.

    NPR: Big Hair, Bouncy Moves, Tons of Bawlmer Charm

  • When Baker's own Deputy, Lawrence S. Eagleburger, made a speech in September at Georgetown University that seemed to depart from the "euphoric" script by warning against "complacency...about the new order of foreign policy challenges" and urging the West "to avoid bankrolling merely cosmetic Soviet reforms, " he received a sharp dressing down from his superior.

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  • Chief Executive Robert Eckert found himself on Capitol Hill getting the usual dressing-down.

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  • He summoned the army chief, along with the most prominent advocate of reform, for an even-handed dressing-down, paving the way for a peaceful restoration of democracy.

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  • Another analyst got a dressing-down for publishing a report without first submitting it to EMC for editing (the standard practice)--even though the report said good things.

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  • The Rangers didn't look much better in the second, and they were booed off the ice as they trudged to the dressing room down by two goals.

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  • The 24 players returned to the course after the rain had gone as Europe served up a Sunday best after a Saturday night dressing-down from captain Colin Montgomerie.

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  • However, last month, in a dressing-down broadcast on TV, the Russian leader rebuked Mr Govorun for failing to deliver on his election promises to help people living in sub-standard housing in the regions.

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  • It was from IBM, telling me my organization was "forcing" them to do something they didn't want to do, and generally dressing me down for making an issue of the bald-faced sexism that their sponsorship supported.

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  • After all, just eight months ago, Mr Blair received a withering dressing-down over his style of government from Lord Butler, a former cabinet secretary, who reported on the uses and misuses of intelligence before the war with Iraq.

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  • He has been summoned before the Procedure Committee for a dressing-down over his department's performance in answering parliamentary questions - where figures show it has the worst record in Whitehall, with MPs waiting too long for often unacceptable answers.

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  • He saw me, recognized me and invited me to come into his dressing room and sit down.

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  • The potential exists for a head and shoulders pattern that could rally this market into end-of-the-quarter window dressing shenanigans before possibly turning back down.

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  • Faced with customers irked that GOG, which was supposed to be their people, had indulged in a marketing stunt that seemed to show a Big Software disregard for their feelings, Rambourg and Iwinski doubled down on geeky, dressing as medieval monks to release a penitential apology.

    FORBES: CD Projekt Interviews: Digital Distribution. Oh, And Monks.

  • Ruddock was more dismissive of criticism in Thomas' book that he had not clamped down on players' personal standards, with dressing rooms left in a mess, bar bills going unpaid and half-full water bottles being discarded.

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  • Why is West following Booth's trail rather than The Bull's? (Kind of silly to have Grant use the Bull's note to light a cigar, no?) How does Gordon eavesdrop on a conversation ostensibly directly above his dressing room, but is in fact also across and down the hall?

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  • Hussey, the target of teasing in the dressing-room because of his inflated average, has played down the order in all of his 21 one-day internationals.

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  • The original purpose of pleats was to allow more fabric for when a man sat down, according to Alan Flusser, author of menswear guidebook "Dressing The Man" and a custom tailor whose credits include Michael Douglas' wardrobe in the original "Wall Street" movie.

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  • Every fan feels this way about their team, I'm sure, but it was typical West Brom when I got back to my dressing room to catch the last half hour or so and we went 1-0 down against a team struggling against relegation.

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  • It got me thinking: Why not assemble a stripped-down, tomboy vanity by pairing this mirror with a low-key desk or dressing table a solution that wouldn't flood our bedroom with estrogen?

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