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...method of designing is based on the druthers system. "I'll take a jacket from my closet and think, I wish this had a looser fit or different pockets," she says. "My design inspiration comes from my own closet, my own thighs, my own life. It's business, but it's personal." --By Ellen Tien

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Liz Lange | 2/16/2004 | See Source »

...tariff on Brazilian o.j. In the past 15 years, that has cut Brazil's share of the U.S. frozen concentrated orange-juice market from 45% to less than 15%. The U.S. claims it can't negotiate those duties in the ftaa. The reason: Brazil's lower wages and looser environmental standards, for example, make it over 60? cheaper for Brazilians to harvest a kilo of oranges, thus putting U.S. growers at a competitive disadvantage. Experts like Connolly say that handicap isn't as severe as the U.S. complains. Cases like the juice tariff - as well as the tariffs pampering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lula's Next Big Fight | 11/16/2003 | See Source »

Fitzsimmons said this year’s drop is due entirely to a change in application policies that reinstated pre-1999 restrictions on early applicants, after several years of looser early application policies...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum and Bari M. Schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Early Application Numbers Plummet | 11/12/2003 | See Source »

This decrease comes as the University reinstates pre-1999 restrictions, after several years of looser early application policies...

Author: By Bari M. Schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Early Application Numbers Plummet | 11/10/2003 | See Source »

...reconnaissance, as the Air Force believed all along.) The enabling power of fear was remarkable; even now conservatives note that the flimsy links between Saddam and al-Qaeda “have not been totally disproven”—as though standards of evidence for war were looser, not stricter, than those of the courtroom...

Author: By Peter P.M. Buttigieg, | Title: Frightened—and Fighting Fear | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

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