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...alter their game plan. Despite a running back-by-committee system that picked up 207 yards on the ground against Georgetown in Week One, the Bears carried the ball 16 times fewer against the Crimson.Not surprisingly, that means they threw 14 more passes—not the winning formula for DiGiacomo and the passing game.“We didn’t even try [to establish the run], to be honest with you,” Estes said. “We got ourselves behind, we looked and we saw that we were going to be in a struggle...
...government, anyway." But if sanctions don't work, what might? Outside the Administration, a growing group of foreign-policy hands from both parties have called on the U.S. to bring Tehran into direct negotiations in the hope of striking a grand bargain. Under that formula, the U.S. might offer Iran some security guarantees-- such as forswearing efforts to topple Iran's theocratic regime--in exchange for Iran's agreeing to open its facilities to international inspectors and abandon weapons-related projects. It would be painful for any U.S. Administration to recognize the legitimacy of a regime that sponsors terrorism...
...profitability of the company," says Lobmeyr. "If the two parties respect each other?when the financial people do not try to influence the creative process and the creative people understand there are basics that must be followed in order to run a company profitably?it's actually a winning formula...
...will that formula change the face of luxury? "If they change something in fashion, it will be in how they manage companies, but it will never be the product, the style, the design," says Bensoussan. "They don't know anything about it. After all, the next day they are looking into fruit smoothies...
Rosso's big idea was to improve the product and the margins. (He had road tested the first part of that formula as a teenager selling friends $7 jeans he made on his mother's sewing machine.) In 1988 he hired a young Dutch fashion-school grad named Wilbert Das, and they began to experiment with dyes and destruction?all sorts of techniques to age the jeans and give them a more vintage feel. They moved pockets, reshaped the jeans, introduced curves?and then charged a whopping $79. Their look was Rosso's look, a blend of thrift store, Americana...