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...chain Dillard's with dedicated teams of designers, merchandisers and sales staff?all housed in plush offices located on the factory site. Keeping designers close to production cuts development time and improves communication. Luen Thai teams are also able to learn about client expectations for materials, styles and costs. Eager to please, the company even bought a roomful of washing machines so it could carry out product testing previously farmed out to a laboratory in Hong Kong. There are top-loading Sanyo washing machines for clothes bound for Japan, Zanussis for Adidas-brand sportswear and outsize Kenmores...
With entry to the epicentre of America’s oldest college restricted to Harvard ID-holders and their guests, the tour groups that regularly block pathways and gawk at students on their way to classes were nowhere to be seen. With the exception of clusters of eager would-be Harvard parents and their children, there were no massive groups of camera-toting intruders taking pictures of real-life-honest-to-goodness Harvard students or naïvely rubbing our benefactor’s foot for good luck...
...Manhattan, Payne tells the sommelier that we have no time for bubbles or even whites. When the bartender tops off Payne's 2002 Drystone Pinot Noir from New Zealand, Payne pours half of it into my glass, eager to move on to the next red. It's a 2001 Pintas from Douro, Portugal, and he likes it. A lot. He immediately starts to think about what food to match it with. "Wine is to food as music is to film," Payne says. "If the combination is right, then it's a whole new thing...
...Eager to energize evangelical Christians--4 million of whom White House adviser Karl Rove believes stayed home on Election Day 2000--George W. Bush said he would work to pass a U.S. constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. But as the race got under way, the Bush campaign had to decide whether to portray Kerry as a committed lefty or a squishy flip-flopper. Though both caricatures were used, the G.O.P. campaign focused far more on the question of whether Kerry could provide steady leadership in uncertain times. Saying that Kerry takes multiple positions has now made it harder to claim...
...current realities. "He has his hands on the pulse of the nation," says Hussein Shahristani, a former nuclear scientist who returned from exile to advise Sistani. "It's at his fingertips." Sistani sees a steady stream of aides and agents based around the country as well as Iraqi leaders eager to court and consult him. Sheik Jameel al-Qurayshi, who represents Sistani in Baghdad's restive Sadr City district, visits the ayatullah at least once a week to discuss the fine points of Islamic practice and get political advice for handling his neighborhood. Sistani's declarations are succinct...