Word: cachet
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...History hasn't been kind to losing international coaches. Georgetown's John Thompson won a bronze with college players at the '88 Olympics - and never made another Final Four. George Karl's cachet dropped after the '02 loss, and Larry Brown, the '04 Olympic coach, is currently out of work after his debacle of a season with the Knicks...
...wasn't long after his stint in Honduras that he made his way to Thailand, entering and re-entering that country mainly on tourist visas. These visas prohibit paid work, but many foreigners flout the rule, and school administrators, eager for the cachet that comes with expatriate instructors, tend to turn a blind eye. Thailand is, however, a favored playground of globetrotting drifters. "You never really know who you're talking to in Bangkok," says an Australian teacher in St. Joseph's English immersion program who met Karr during his brief tenure there. "We've all got a past...
...line. The units range from a $3,500 desktop-notebook hybrid with a 20-in. screen and a remote, to a $2,270 gaming desktop with a swanky scarlet-and-gray exterior and high-end specs. Its purchase of Alienware, a leading seller of game computers, will give Dell cachet in that segment. Parra says Dell's stores give consumers a chance to see its multimedia PCs and laptops in a home environment, paired with some of Dell's other consumer goods like its flat-screen TV sets. The company expects to open more stores in the fall...
With self-publishing, Reiss said that academics lose what she called “the cachet factor,” which comes with traditional forms for publishing. “It depends on whether cachet or cash means more to you,” she said...
...Kongjian, China's pre-eminent landscape architect, was brought down from Beijing to lend the project some cachet?and, as is often the case, his first move was to throw a wrench into other people's plans. Zhongshan didn't need more flowers, Yu told the city officials; it didn't need fountains, ornate wrought-iron fences, or hedges shaped like animals. Instead of bulldozing the shipyard, he proposed, they could put it to new use. A gantry crane would make an interesting gate, a crumbling water tower could become the base of a lighted beacon. Instead of grass...