Word: fashion
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...story; in other cases, they respond to really great writing." The winner of the July grand prize, as well as of category prizes in both July and October, was a letter carrier from Portland, Ore., named Murr Brewster, whose folksy commentary on low-rise jeans and other fashion trends won in "Style+Beauty+Body." (An excerpt: "rolling cumulonimbus mounds of flesh were thundering out of pants all over town. Everywhere I looked, girls were celebrating physiques of the sort that once ignited the muumuu industry.") The announcement of her October win coincided with her retirement from her post-office...
...system in the 1930s. To stop the institutional run on money markets, Paulson announced on Sept. 19 an insurance fund for them that would be backed up by funds usually reserved for currency stabilization. The AIG and Merrill Lynch interventions were attempts to dissolve failing companies in an orderly fashion without panic, as was the Wachovia bailout. The opening of the discount window to investment banks was the first effort to provide access to a lender of last resort. As for regulation, that will have to be something the Fed, Treasury, SEC and Congress tackle after the crisis crests...
...Darwin were evaluating fashion, he would certainly argue that anyone stupid enough to wear shutter shades, a “trendy” version of beer goggles, deserves to be naturally selected to be hit by a bus—one that he couldn’t even see coming...
...typical fashion, I had purchased the wrong magazine. And I also spent 20 minutes trying to put the pages of a manuscript in their correct order after the photocopy machine had the audacity to spit them out completely and inexplicably mixed...
...biggest and baddest of them all. But when it comes to “structured fun,” which event really delivers? Eleganza Eleganza is held in the Bright Hockey Center each year, pulling in between 1,300 and 1,600 spectators for their corporate-sponsored fashion show. And they don’t even need to try with a kitschy tagline: “Eleganza. That’s all that’s needed,” says Executive Producer Denetrius J. Charlemagne ’11. Evening With Champions Also in the Bright Hockey Center, this...