Word: 50th
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TIME commemorates the 50th anniversary of the discovery...
...getting a lot of car for the dollar." Since Honda introduced its S2000 in 1999, sales of the $35,000 roadster have jumped nearly threefold. Mazda's Miata, introduced in 1989, is still purring along, with around 15,000 sold each year. Though Chevy's Corvette celebrates its 50th birthday next year, it still accounts for a third of all U.S. sports-car sales, and with its price pushing $50,000, it turns a nice profit...
...label's 50th anniversary, Chloé's CEO Ralph Toledano insists he has no reason to regret parting with McCartney: "Celebrity is a marketing vehicle that appeared some years ago, and it will go as it came." But others aren't so sure. "Chloé's appeal was built around Stella McCartney - her personality, her friends, her social circle," says Sagra de Rosen, a luxury-goods analyst at J.P. Morgan who covers the Richemont Group, which owns Chloé, along with Cartier, Dunhill and other brands. "After she left, it lost a bit of that appeal...
...feisty essayist, if a bit of a name-dropper. There's too much "my friend Alan Yentob" and "I recently asked Vaclav Havel" in these articles, letters and speeches. And some shouldn't be here at all - including, truth be told, a moldy piece on independent India's 50th anniversary that I edited for this magazine. But he's brilliant on the real message of The Wizard of Oz , which is that Dorothy's "no place like home" ender is all wrong. After a trip like that, Rushdie insists, you can't go home again: stepping across the line into...
...surprising that Guerrino De Luca celebrated his 50th birthday in Las Vegas this September. He loves betting. When he lost one particular contest two years ago, he was compelled to dye his hair fuchsia. Then he addressed a convention of Zurich bankers...