Word: charme
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...disaster scars are still fresh. "Get off your asses, and let's do something," New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin raged in a radio interview that he ended in tears. But he of all people was in a position to understand the odds. A city known both for its charm and its rot, not just from the termites consuming whole neighborhoods but from a corrupt police force, dissolving tax base, neglected infrastructure, rising poverty and a murder rate that inspired old-timers to pack a gun beneath their tuxes on their way to the Mardi Gras parade, could hardly have...
...Limited-edition items designed for the celebration include a gold medallion necklace ($285), a gold charm bracelet ($310) and three classic leather bags that cost between $850 and $1,225. Just 300 of each product will be available from this week in each of the 23 countries in which C?line has outlets...
...eager to align themselves with industry in order to make money from their discoveries, and who accept industry funding to conduct, and interpret the results of, trials of drugs in which they may have a financial stake. Then there are the doctors who, seduced by the standard three-pronged charm offensive of drug company sales reps - food, flattery and friendship - respond by prescribing certain drugs with a frequency they wouldn't otherwise have contemplated. "Researchers are shameless in colluding with the drug companies in a lot of their shenanigans," says Angell from her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts...
...Limited-edition items designed for the celebration include a gold medallion necklace ($285), a gold charm bracelet ($310) and three classic leather bags that cost between $850 and $1,225. Just 300 of each product will be available from this week in each of the 23 countries in which C?line has outlets...
...nonstop witty, a real charmer, but his charm has a teasing, Cheshire-cat quality, as if his whole personality were just a game he plays with other people. "O.K., this is the first interview of the day," he muses out loud. "What kind of mood am I in? Am I going to, like, tell some stories?" After he offers me his assessment of the menu, he fixes me with a quizzical stare. "Do you believe me? Really? Even after reading my book...