Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Instead of coming together to craft a plan to stave off bankruptcy, the parties in both chambers and on each end of Pennsylvania Avenue spent the day moving further apart. Even as Senate Dems and the White House met to fashion a workable compromise, Senate Republicans made clear that they weren't on board with President Bush - and that they were none too happy he was putting them in this uncomfortable position. To complicate matters, House Dems moved more to the left in their environmental demands for the plan, a luxury Speaker Nancy Pelosi could afford since her large majority...
Contemporary Chinese artists have had their international coming-out parties - but Chinese fashion designers are taking rather longer to make an impact. Hoping to help is Dee Dee Poon. The Hong Kong socialite and fashionista has started Dysemevas, a "pop-up store" and touring boutique that will briefly occupy one location before shutting up shop and moving to the next in-the-know address...
...chic boutique closes on Dec. 21, just six weeks after it opened (fashion is fleeting). But if you can't get there, don't fret - it will pop up again in Beijing come spring. For more information, visit www.dysemevas.com...
...that citizens are not tempted into tax avoidance. Surely, the practice of some of the biggest U.S. banks of selling junk papers to unsuspecting clients, many of whom are pensioners, is far more despicable. The U.S. authorities must be aware that European investors who have been cheated in this fashion might just return the favor by starting class-action suits against these banks. Then what? Peter Roost, BUERON, SWITZERLAND...
...literally true that the U.S. government does not have a joint-operating plan in Afghanistan,” said Cull, who heads the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan public policy think tank. He went on to state that the Obama administration will work to fashion one. “Presumably better to have a joint strategy than to have none at all,” he said. Rubin, the director of studies at the Center on International Cooperation at NYU, echoed this sentiment. “The war is going almost on auto-pilot,” said Rubin...