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...Montel’s personality is unlike anyone I’ve ever met. He’s so confident, and he tries to convey that to us. The gist of his message is, you can do this, too,” Gentry said...
...maybe I’m not quick—as quick on my feet as I should be in coming up with one.” And though it’s difficult for Dartboard to decipher Bush’s peculiar vernacular, she thinks she gets the gist...
Like Phillips, Bravo has an exceptional number of women, at least 12, filling vital positions at the company. "I'd love to make the gist of this that Burberry has so many women in positions of power. I think that's really more interesting than talking about one person," she says. But people are interested in Bravo, who in July topped the European executive-compensation list, having earned $9.2 million in 2002, surpassing Tom Ford and LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault (who remains France's richest man despite his $1.59 million take-home). So she agrees to set the record straight...
Imagine a big sale at Nieman Marcus. Then imagine that the clothes have already been worn. That’s the gist of Second Time Around—an upscale consignment shop with branches in Boston and Cambridge carrying hot labels such as Seven (khakis, $72), Chaiken and Trina Turk. Passing under the radar of most Harvard students, the Cambridge store is a bargain shopper’s dream. Snag hot Diesel jeans for $52 and peruse the racks of upscale pants, skirts and blouses (all of which retailed for over $200). Both this and the Newbury store occasionally...
...such eras. The European balance of power system was one. It lasted through centuries of wars of increasing devastation until competition between nations destroyed the continent in two world wars. The respective “Warring States” periods of China and Japan furnish more lessons, the gist of which is summarized in their names. Contrast these worlds with Pax Romana, Pax Britannia and now, Pax Americana. That war between major states today is unthinkable does not prove that the nature of international relations has fundamentally changed, only that the United States has more military power than any conceivable...