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Picks and pans. (Opinion Today).(Column)

By Marks, Jennifer
Publication: Home Textiles Today
Date: Monday, August 12 2002

Every industry has its unofficial system of lauding accomplishment and frowning at poor decisions--bouquets and brickbats, kudos and cudgels. You get the idea.

After much deliberation, the brain trust at Home Textiles Today has come up with our own pair of labels: cotton balls and boll weevils. Our winners and sinners this week:

Cotton balls to Tyco ex-ceo Dennis Kozlowski. For in the course of squandering $135 million in company money on artwork, luxury vacations and a mansion, the once high-flying capitalist generously dropped $6,000 on a single shower cur

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