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...kind of nuclear power plant, one that Burke promptly set about creating in the form of Fendi's historic palazzo in the center of Rome, which he renovated in order to relocate scattered design studios and management offices under one roof. The idea was to centralize the talent and boost productivity. While Burke heaps praise on Fendi's designers, he is emphatic that far from everything resting "on a designer's pencil point, the brand is the boss...
While gift receipts to Harvard Business School in 2006 totaled only $57 million—a 54 percent decline from the previous year, when the final year of a capital campaign helped to boost the B-School bounty—Harvard said that other parts of the University “more than offset” the decline. Gifts to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences rose 15 percent...
...wrote Barbara Vancheri in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "As one said, 'It's like being the big-breasted blond woman on the beach in a tiny bikini,' and everyone wants a look." This excitement, suavely manufactured by the Festival and abetted by the film's detractors, will surely help boost the asking price; the movie came to Canada without a U.S. distributor...
...companies; with violating securities law, by a Tokyo district court; in Tokyo. Horie, whose arrest in January sparked a stock swoon that wiped out 80% of his company's market value, pleaded not guilty to allegations that he and other top executives falsified accounts and spread false information to boost share prices. An estimated 2,000 spectators lined up at the courthouse to see the tycoon, whose case has been widely covered in Japan...
...means you're sexy. I have always wanted to be sexy. So for the next few weeks, Jamie made calls on my behalf and discovered that several of her contacts at hair companies were familiar with me and, in some cases, my hair. All I had to do was boost my visibility. Jamie suggested getting my name splashed in gossip columns by dating a celebrity. That was Jamie's best idea yet?although I figured I wasn't likely to date a celebrity until I had had my face on some huge Paul Mitchell billboards...