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What's interesting is just how calculating Stroll and Chou are about this launch. Time was, a fashion designer would land on Seventh Avenue and either strike the right chord or strike out. These days, no one can afford to be so haphazard. After picking their designer, Stroll and Chou targeted four department-store chains where they saw a void in the designer better market--including Federated, May Department Stores, Saks Inc. and Dillard's. Then they signed several licensing deals including watches and men's suits, shirts and ties. To prevent the stores from cherry picking, they made...
...many prisoners and too few guards--as well as a confusing chain of command--generated a climate ripe for trouble that the Pentagon's leadership should have anticipated. In the report, Rumsfeld's own specially appointed panel, headed by former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, blames Rumsfeld's lean and haphazard deployment orders for overtaxing troops in Iraq. It points out that when the commander in charge of Abu Ghraib, Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, said she needed more forces, she was told to "'wear her stars' and reallocate personnel among her over-stretched units...
...Life is two books, really: Arkansas and the presidency. It is no secret that Clinton wanted to write two separate books but was dissuaded by his publisher, Knopf. In My Life he has written the first one and compiled the other. In our interview, Clinton said the haphazard account of the presidential years was intentional: "It's much more like a diary of what it's like to be President." There are an awful lot of passages like "In mid-month, Hillary and I flew to St. Louis, where I signed the Mississippi River flood relief legislation ... Then we flew...
Though the Faculty passed regulations and created a new program, the implementation of advanced standing was somewhat haphazard at the beginning...
...estimated 200 courses-not a lot for a nation of 1.3 billion, but hundreds more are planned or under construction. At least they were until recently, when China's Cabinet, the State Council, discouraged investment in new links as part of a broader effort to control what Beijing calls haphazard and redundant property projects. Across the mainland, developers now find themselves in a sand trap. "We're still working on due diligence to see if there will be any impact on our residential site," says Frederick Leung, executive director of Dickson Group Holdings, a Hong Kong construction contractor that delayed...