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...trend American shoppers won't be seeing much of is the teenybopper pastel sweaters and T shirts that were once Esprit staples. Instead, the selection is more mature--khaki pants, jeans, striped shirts and white blouses. Although Esprit still sells basics, its designers add some clever flourishes to give the styles more panache. The company is positioning itself to sell clothing at prices 10% to 15% lower than Banana Republic's. Krogner calls Esprit clothing "for good girls. Not the one with a ring in her nose or showing her belly...
When Paul Watson drives to work at Yatala, on Brisbane's southern edge, he rides high-and not just because of his vehicle's 37-in. wheels. He enjoys the double-takes people give his khaki and brown car-or-truck-or-is-it-a-tank: "They'll come up and say, Wow, that's awesome," says Watson. But the biggest lift comes from driving something that once existed only in his imagination: "To drive it down the road and think, 'We built this'-that's a real buzz...
...Matt Smyczek, an associate numerary and Director of the Midtown Center tutoring program was preparing for the evening's classes when we sat down in his office. He has a dark thatch of hair and dark eyebrows, and is dressed in a blue blazer and khaki pants. "We are not trying to convert kids to Catholicism," he says. "Kids won't learn doctrine if they don't want to." Smyczek joined Opus Dei at age 24 when he was working as a professional engineer, driven by the feeling, he said, "that there's got to be more to life than...
...hopscotch-like floor pad by which users who have their hands full with other tasks at their desks can control their email with their feet. As an audience of assistants, members of the research team and star-struck employees watched, Gates, clad in a maroon crew neck sweater and khaki colored trousers, tried out the gizmo. Standing on the dance pad, he stomped on the down arrow and watched the cursor move down the list. His right loafer hopped on the right arrow until it moved up to the delete function marked by X and then he stomped forcefully...
...asked Sushila whether she knew the names of the people who had visited that morning. She said that she did not but that they were very nice. I told her the man in the khaki pants was the richest man in the world. Sushila smiled and said it didn't matter that he was the richest. All foreigners were rich compared with her, she said...