Word: backyarders
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Sometimes the next big opportunity is continents away; at other times it's in the backyard. In Paris, word has it that the high-end children's-wear brand Bonpoint is in play. Several luxury purveyors?including the Pinault family, whose retail holdings include Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent?have expressed interest. Bonpoint, the quintessential Parisian brand, is known for meticulous detailing and classics with a fizz in sizes 0 to 16. The company is both desirable and underexposed, and the Pinaults are well placed to observe the little consumers-in-training?their family mansion near the Luxembourg Gardens overlooks...
...those two got a fancy set of wheels, how could she leave her younger daughter Addie out of the equation? The high-priced solution she and her husband devised: three kiddie Jeeps. "We laugh at ourselves now," says Patterson. "That was $900 driving around in the backyard. If we were not a blended family, there's no way we would have done this. We go overboard to be fair...
...teachers, who are experts in their respective fields.Schanfield says that the program is always looking to increase its collaboration with Harvard and other local institutions of higher learning.“Kids don’t necessarily wander through Harvard Yard every day, but it is basically in their backyard,Schanfield says. “We love exposing kids to college.”In 2005, Harvard Medical School research fellow Paul A. Ardayfio and colleagues began a Citizen Schools apprenticeship that allows students to investigate the effect of drugs on the brain with researchers from Harvard teaching hospitals.According...
...only chairman who can issue subpoenas without a committee vote. Then Chairman Dan Burton--who famously re-enacted the suicide of Clinton deputy White House counsel Vince Foster by shooting at what he called a "head-like thing" (later widely reported to be a melon) in his backyard--issued 1,089 such unilateral subpoenas in six years. Since a Republican entered the White House, the G.O.P. Congress has been far less enthusiastic in its oversight. Waxman likes to point out that the House took 140 hours of sworn testimony to get to the bottom of whether Clinton had misused...
...clean-air standards, as well as cleanup measures costing up to $3.5 billion. But there's relatively little the city can do about its greatest environmental scourge: an estimated 80% of its air pollution drifts in from mainland China's Guangdong province. "You can clean up your own backyard," White says, "but there's still this enormous problem across the river...