Word: depoix
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...fashion world, where imitation used to be the sincerest form of flattery, is also suffering from this kind of larceny, especially since trademarked designer goods have become big business. Laments Jean-Marc Depoix, commercial director for the Christian Dior fashion house in Paris: "This excessively developed taste for the visual signature of the designer has favored the increase of copies. Not only are such well-known logos easy to identify when worn by customers, but they are easy to reproduce by counterfeiters." The French fashion industry alone estimates that it loses roughly $500 million in annual revenues to counterfeiters...
DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY. Director: Vice Admiral Vincent P. dePoix. Number of employees: 5,000. Budget: $129,300,000. Set up by Robert S. McNamara in August 1961, after the CIA intelligence for Bay of Pigs invasion proved disastrously inadequate, and because the three military services' operations suffered from a lack of overall evaluation. The agency operates under the direction of the Secretary of Defense. Charged with assessing the worldwide military situation, the Defense Intelligence Agency coordinates the conflicting and not infrequently self-serving intelligence operations of the three armed services-Army's G2, Office of Naval Intelligence...
...Rivoli, which counts on Americans for 90% of its business, will go on as before-though the firm is now providing airport-bound customers with buses staffed by hostesses who help with the confusion at customs. And at Dior last week, Director Jean-Marc Depoix comfortingly reassured his jet-set clientele that Dior's 15% discount would be granted as usual, added that "our foreign friends have been treated lightly enough as it is without adding this new insult...
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