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...knew how to put on a show. In one, he sprayed models with paint as they walked; in another, he had them in rings of fire; in another, they were blood-spattered. Wild makeup and hair are runway standards, but McQueen put his models in those lobster-claw shoes Lady Gaga favors, as well as antlers. He gave his shows ribald names and once sent down a completely naked model carrying a transparent box of moths - which was then shattered, releasing the panicking winged insects. He mooned the audience and went out in a bunny suit (although...
...euro and yen are this year's dollar, what's on the flip side of the smart carry trade for 2010? Last year the Brazilian real was a currency on fire, appreciating 35% on interest rates that started 2009 at an unsustainable 13.75%. It was a situation that threatened to suffocate the economy, forcing the government to intervene in currency markets, cut interest rates nearly 40% and impose new taxes on foreign investment. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
Laskey said the DEP, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Coast Guard, Massachusetts State Police, and the Cambridge Police and Fire departments were all involved in the response, but the fire department’s Deputy Chief Gerard E. Mahoney criticized the MWRA for calling them almost three hours after the spill was discovered
...conveyed to the MWRA people there this morning, the delay in the notification of the fire department was unacceptable,” Mahoney said. “They assured me this morning that it wouldn’t happen again...
...Toyoda - who unconvincingly insisted that he made the second public appearance not because he has come under fire, but because it was his "own way of improving the situation" - delivered the bad news at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, where minister Seiji Maehara also learned the chief of the world's largest automobile maker is headed to the U.S. on an apology tour. Maehara has condemned Toyota for being insensitive and slow in responding to domestic consumer complaints - the first report of the brake problems in Japan goes back to July, and 84 had been filed...