Word: brasses
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...this show, Joey Tribbiani, Matt LeBlanc's sweet-hearted dope, heads West to jump-start his career and reconnect with his equally Noo Yawky sister Gina (The Sopranos' Drea de Matteo). We also meet his nephew Michael (Paulo Costanzo), a rocket scientist; his sharky agent, Bobbie (one-woman brass band Jennifer Coolidge); and his bland, pretty, married neighbor Alex (Andrea Anders). But none of these types are fresh or memorable. There's no Niles. Not even a Squiggy...
...stores, with Old Navy pushing Argyle tube tops and ballet flats and H&M stocked with modest blouses that Paris Hilton wouldn't be caught dead in. Even perennially preppy retailers like J. Crew are taking the look a step further with navy schoolboy blazers that have polished brass buttons...
...France, but now there is a community of concern, and lots of discussion about emigration." Alain Elbeze isn't a man to run scared. He says he went to prison at the age of 20 for mixing it up with neo-Nazis, and he keeps a poing americain (brass knuckles) handy when he's on the move. But he sees no point in keeping up the struggle. Though Elbeze, an ad salesman, attended public school, he pays j1,200 a month to send his children to private Jewish schools - not just for faith, but for safety. His kids will have...
...tight Kremlin control, rather than launching a formally state-owned concern," which would scare off foreign investors. The new board chairman of Rosneft, who avoids publicity and contact with outsiders, is a key member of the Siloviki (hard men) - Putin's coterie of top security, law-enforcement and military brass, who many say are becoming Russia's new oligarchs. He won the new job after 14 years of loyal service to Putin. A 1984 graduate of Leningrad University in French and Portuguese, Sechin started his career as a translator in Africa. The Russian media alleged that he had kgb ties...
...brass of a big organization is charged with gross errors. The bosses circle the wagons until public clamor forces an inquiry by an elder statesman, who confirms the mistakes and many other management lapses but says they were the result of misjudgment rather than malign intent. Should the brass resign? In January, when the organization was the BBC and Lord Hutton concluded it had violated journalistic standards by accusing the government of sexing up the case for war in Iraq, Tony Blair was all for the departure of the BBC's chairman and Director General. Last week, though, he felt...