Word: chic
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...firm tried to put into practice the idea that nearly anything can be turned into a financial product and, through complex statistical modeling, traded for profit. Asset-light and heavily reliant on intellectual capital, Enron rewarded innovation and punished employees deemed weak. Those ideas were New Economy chic, and to some extent retain currency. Energy traders still use financial instruments that Enron pioneered in order to hedge against price swings. As for those notorious off-balance-sheet partnerships, "they can be used legitimately for financing projects in high-risk countries," says Michelle Michot Foss, an economist at the University...
Curry is as visual on campus as he is visible. He is most often heralded as a beacon of dressy-chic style. He devotes 20 hours a week to working at the Banana Republic on Newbury Street, a job that has ensured him an extensive wardrobe of chic business casual. He has worked in retail for the past five years, including stints at the Gap in Harvard Square. Yet his Mather dorm room has taken on a very un-Banana tone since he desperately sought to fill his empty common room in his first year. At a fabric store...
...center's Imperial Hotel on Janpath, tel: (91-11) 334 1234, has resurrected itself from a shabby, colonial relic to a polished celebration of marble, huge ceilings and fine carpets. There are three great restaurants and a huge bar that packs in the young on weekends. But the truly chic should head for The Manor, an 18-room boutique hotel set in a secluded southern garden in Friend's Colony. The owners have combined modish veneer, glass and low lighting with traditional Indian textiles and a hint of colonial style to produce India's first designer hotel. The menu alone...
...chic duo Janet L. Kim ’04 and Michelle T. Young ’04 are doing their best to change that. They are co-producing Contradictions, a charity fashion show event that they hope will promote style and raise money to fund breast cancer research...
When Bond first introduced himself onscreen in 1962, Britain's geographic empire was breaking up, but its cultural one was burgeoning. In the prole-chic era of the Beatles and Carnaby Street, of kitchen-sink realism and blue-collar movie stars, Bond was at best a blithe anachronism--a specter from the early postwar era, when spies dressed for dinner, and class was a matter of the right accent and breeding. Politically and culturally, the impossibly suave Bond was curiously old school, even if that school was Cambridge...