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Player to Watch: Tad Crawford. League’s leading tackler in ‘05 returns as one of few bright spots in 2-8 season...
...1930s. Betty Grable's legs inadvertently sold the first disposable razors marketed to women, after World War II. It was only a matter of time before actors realized the potential profits behind being such successful marketing tools for beauty brands, and before long, Judy Garland and Joan Crawford signed on to appear in magazine advertisements for Max Factor in the '30s and '40s. Although Farrah Fawcett sold untold amounts of Wella Balsam conditioner in the '70s and L'Oréal has had a revolving army of actors proclaiming "Because I'm worth it" for four decades, the cachet...
...contemporary clothing?the original BCBG Max Azria line?that is big business for upscale department stores around the world like Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, Macy's, Harvey Nichols, Hong Kong's Lane Crawford, Taiwan's Mitsukoshi and Singapore's Takashimaya. "They fill a lot of niches," says Frank Doroff, general merchandise manager at Bloomingdale's. "If you want clothes to go to work, to go out at night, a dress to wear to an occasion, they're trend right." Doroff says it all started with "the slinky dress," but what really put Azria on the map were his "sexy tops...
...financial-services group HBOS. The firm reckons the inheritance-tax threshold should be raised substantially, to $813,000, to bring it in line with the 179% increase in house prices over the past decade. "The threshold needs to reflect what happened in the property market," says Tim Crawford, group economist at HBOS. "A lot of people may not realize they are sitting on a gold mine," says Young of Scottish Widows, whose research suggests that more than 40% of those whose assets now would make their estates liable for inheritance tax don't even realize it. The firm earlier this...
...Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman was in Cleveland, decrying "an unfortunate embrace of isolationism, defeatism, and a blame- America-first attitude by national Democratic leaders at a time when retreating from the world is particularly dangerous." In early afternoon, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow told reporters in Crawford, Tex.: "It's a defining moment for the Democratic Party, whose national leaders now have made it clear that if you disagree with the extreme left in their party they're going to come after you." And an hour or so later, Vice President Cheney told wire-service reporters...