Word: khaki
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...Millard ("Mickey") Drexler, the master merchant behind Gap Inc., whether business hums or business sputters. He is rarely satisfied. If the former, "I'm pleased," he admits, "but never happy." Certainly the past year's uneven performance did little to put Drexler in the mood to do the khaki swing...
This spring, look for a much less basic Gap. The company has pared down its mind-numbing khaki and blue-hued assortment. Instead of all those jeans, Gap has upped the fashion mix, injecting more color and style onto the shelves. "Frankly what happened is we got a little sloppy in [fashion] investments," says Drexler. "We're a fashion and basics business. We can't do what we do without fashion. The Gap point of view is that if we don't change the style, the business will get stale." You'll see the change in the form...
...look down. A white T-shirt, khaki pants and running shoes with holes near the toes...
...step forward, two steps back. And that slow progress creates caution on both sides of the U.S.-India relationship." A pity, it would seem, because apart from being a vibrant democracy, India has been culturally integrated with the West for as long as Englishmen have been drinking tea, wearing khaki, playing polo and using words such as "pajama," "pundit" and "pariah" (all of which were imported from the Raj). Dowell concurs: "Despite its vast potential and wealth of human capital, U.S. investors see the country hamstrung by the remnants of a socialist administration - realizing the vast potential of this relationship...