Word: flagship
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While specialty stores have taken the lead in making shopping more of an adventure, the old-line department stores are getting the idea too. A $10 million overhaul under way at Marshall Field's Chicago flagship will result in the addition of a mini-museum paying homage to the city and detailing the store's long history. Among the other new features: a visitor's center, where a concierge will arrange theater tickets for shoppers, and a business center, where customers can send faxes, catch up with CNN or get their shoes shined...
...Busch-Reisinger exhibition does an adequate job of presenting the complexity of Weimar visual culture. There are no flagship pieces; not one oil painting graces the show (where is Christian Schad?). Copious books have been placed in the hallway outside the exhibit to bolster the scanty offerings. There is a characteristic Georg Grosz sketch of men and women walking about, greedy and mean, but it feels like little more than a twig compared to the corpus of Grosz's works. The same is true of the representation given of Beckmann, Feiniger, Albers, Schlemmer and other Weimar stars. The only artist...
Fortunately, those data are starting to trickle in. At the urging of its members, the A.M.A. for the first time devoted all its research publications last week, including the flagship Journal of the A.M.A., to scientific studies on alternative, or complementary, medicine. As with conventional medicine, the results showed that some treatments work while others...
...face, why shouldn't Steve Wynn, the modern-day Mike Todd or P.T. Barnum of Vegas, the man with more clout in the gambling-and-hotel business than anyone alive with the possible exception of Donald Trump, run Van Gogh and Picasso on the billboard for his new flagship hotel, the Bellagio, which cost $1.6 capital-B billion to build and decorate and opens to the public this week...
...Japan's politicians fiddle with banking reform, the country's economic rot is striking deep into the flagship industries of steel and electronics. Hitachi has announced its first annual loss since the end of the Second World War -- about three quarters of a billion dolllars -- and it's cutting 4,000 jobs. Did somebody say "lifetime employment"? Meanwhile, steelmaker Toa, sagging under some $2 billion in debt, is reported to be pursuing a liquidation program. It would be the largest Japanese manufacturer ever to fail...