Word: dooms
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...Green is confident that his chain has the fashion horsepower and merchandising excitement to reel in customers with skinny wallets - and keep them coming back to buy more. "I'm not in the doom camp," said Green in an interview with TIME during New York Fashion Week in February. "We're a $5 billion company, and this is a long-term game. No point in coming here for a walk in the park. We have the right product for this time." (See the top 10 fashion moments...
...balls clear the fence—four off of Crimson bats—Harvard had to climb out of a hole again due to a three-run Penn first inning against the starter Zailskas. An eight-run sixth, which chased Zailskas and battered freshman reliever Will Keuper, seemed to doom the Crimson before the late offensive eruption.“Our offense salvaged us today with long balls,” Harvard coach Joe Walsh said. “We’ve got a lot of confidence and, while we sometimes haven’t finished [games...
...this time around, and the best place to see it is in one of Brazil's favelas, the vast urban slums that are desperate even in the best of times. Walk through São Paulo's sprawling Brasilândia, though, and you don't sense the relentless doom and gloom gripping other cities in the world. Take Efigênia Francisca da Silva, who exudes middle-class expectations and remains positive despite the tsunami of bad news. Thanks to a government scheme to encourage entrepreneurs, the once dirt-poor housewife has received some $8,000 in low-interest...
...cowering in the corner like a nun? Sister Winnie of the Heartless and Frumpy?Then I realized what I could do for the rest of my life—open a dress shop for lasses in mourning—and call it, what, The Gloomy Loom of Doom?“And that’s why my embroidered pigs are so rotten!” I heard blare from behind me.I froze at her voice! Where could I hide? What was even huge enough to hide me? A statue? A cross? An ironclad? There was nothing anywhere. A church...
...knocked us out.” But silver lining isn’t hard to find for Tompkins, who has been surrounded by the brand’s optimistic stick figures since the store opened in August of 2006, “It’s not all doom and gloom,” he said. While Tompkins noted a contingent of “die-harders” in Cambridge, a lack of sales and high rent overcame what he described as a “little piece of optimism” from economic reality...