Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which sold more than $400 million last year. It began as a collection of Australian-inspired bush-country wear, and now features tamer English staples like jodhpurs and cable-knit sweaters. At Macy's, which sells an estimated 50 house brands, the Aeropostale line evokes the garb of 1920s French mail-plane pilots. The collection includes white silk scarves and rugged corduroy trousers. Macy's also offers a line of casual wear whose name makes a bald appeal to yuppie taste in real estate: Loft & Brownstone. At J.C. Penney, house brands range from the Silk Avenue collection of imported dresses...
...French press disclosed a sheet of printed instructions for a campaign of harassment against the film that included the use of tear gas. According to the weekend Journal du Dimanche, the instructions gave a Paris phone number belonging to the Centre Charlier, a fundamentalist Roman Catholic organization founded by Bernard Anthony, a National Front deputy in the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Anthony denied any connection to the attacks. But at week's end police were still investigating members of the Centre Charlier for possible involvement in l'affaire Temptation...
...companies in America. Though KKR readily sells off pieces of the firms it buys, it usually retains some core businesses. Of the 35 companies it has acquired, KKR still has control of 23. As a result, KKR has become a huge conglomerate. The companies it controls produce everything from French colonial furniture to dairy products. If KKR were classified as an industrial company, according to FORTUNE magazine, its estimated $38 billion in annual revenues would make it the seventh largest in the U.S., just behind General Electric...
...little virtue in leveraged buyouts. Top executives go along with or even instigate buyouts because as major shareholders they stand to profit. The resulting companies may be leaner, but often they are also weaker, with little money to invest in expansion or innovation. Says Michel David-Weill, the French senior managing partner of the Lazard Freres investment firm: "The wave of leveraged buyouts is weakening the competitiveness of many U.S. companies that have fought so hard to regain...
...Once a C- section, always a C- section" is no longer the case. -- After halting production of abortion pills in the face of protests, a French firm was ordered to resume making them...