Word: compacting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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PARIS Classic Parisiennes ("femmes, pas filles," according to a spokeswoman) stick to Chanel, specifically a new compact version of the classic quilted leather bag and a sexy satin pump, above, beaded by Lesage...
...Scary stuff, but there have been few instances since then of such a weapon firing on and downing a commercial airliner. In the past 18 months, alQaeda has twice tried to down planes with shoulder-fired missiles; both times they missed. It turns out that shoulder-fired missiles, while compact enough to fit in a duffel bag, are not particularly reliable weapons. But with an estimated 350,000 of them in government caches around the globe and countless more for sale on the black market, there is an abundance of them available. Even people like Hemant Lakhani think they...
...Somerville resident reported that in the late afternoon, persons unknown gained entry into her car, which was parked on the third floor of the Galleria mall. Three hundred compact discs and a faceplate for a Pioneer car stereo were stolen...
...even worse than Ryan in the socially savage O.C.--kick up their characters to two, even 2 1/2 dimensions. Director Doug Liman (Swingers) handles the stock scenes deftly: our first look at the Mean Jock (pulls up in SUV, kisses girl, flashes a cocky, aggressive grin) is a compact haiku of soap-character exposition. And it's refreshing, after years of exhaustingly self-conscious soaps in the Dawson's Creek mold, to see an old-school, un-ironic teen drama whose characters don't sling pop-culture bons mots like ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY interns...
...From his predecessor, Jiang Zemin, Hu inherited the mandate for maintaining China's social compact after the Tiananmen Square massacre: the government gets to continue its autocratic ways, and in return the people get the longest sustained period of prosperity in more than 50 years. During last year's 16th Party Congress, which saw Hu's appointment as General Secretary, China's leaders made but one concrete pledge to the public?and it had dollar signs attached. The CCP vowed to quadruple the nation's per capita income by the year...