Word: investments
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What would be the most important pieces to invest in now that won't go out of style? -Jen Meckles, COLUMBIA, MO.A classic blazer or jacket would be a wonderful purchase. I have my 10-essentials list for getting your wardrobe right. It's the blazer, the classic white shirt, a skirt, a day dress, a basic black dress, black pants, jeans, a sweater of some kind and a trench coat-you can wear it to the grocery store or the opera. The last one is a sweat-suit alternative-something that you feel good in and look good...
...asked on TV if opening 1,300 stores in the US in a single year was "too much too fast." "Not at all," the then-chairman said. "We have been a growth company for the last 20 years. And the hallmark of that growth has been our ability to invest ahead of the growth curve...
...lack of cooperation within the region has been a key impediment to more investment in North Africa, notes Carlo Altomonte, a professor of international economic policy at Milan's Bocconi University. "One of the main reasons of the trading success in Eastern Europe is that they integrated among themselves," he says. "If you invest in Tunisia, you get stuck in Tunisia. The North Africans are painfully slow to trust each other...
...money such campaigns generate comes with a huge responsibility to invest those funds cannily, and both universities are making suitable arrangements. Nick Cavalla, formerly an exec at Man Global Strategies - part of the Man Group, the world's largest publicly listed hedge fund - started work as Cambridge's first chief investment officer in April last year; Sandra Robertson, previously the boss of Portfolio Management at the Wellcome Trust, an influential U.K. medical charity, took up the equivalent role at Oxford five months later...
...determining a couple's chances of having a baby, but Yao and her team are attempting to streamline and standardize the process. Ultimately, she believes, the embryo screen will be able to help couples who have already undergone one unsuccessful cycle of IVF to decide whether or not to invest in additional attempts...