Word: maier
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...example, bought out M.A.C. and Bobbi Brown in the mid-'90s. Between December 2000 and July 2001, the Gucci Group snapped up Stella McCartney, Balenciaga and Alexander McQueen. Then there are individual specialty lines: Gucci has issued a series of made-to-measure handbags, and Bottega Veneta designer Thomas Maier offers custom-order services...
...good as the Milan collections for spring 2003 were - and they were very good - the hands-down winner came from a company that didn't even put on a runway show. With its third collection by Tomas Maier, Bottega Veneta, the leather-goods house famous in the 1970s for its woven bags and the slogan "When your own initials are enough," confirmed expectations that it would be Gucci Group's next successful turnaround. When Gucci bought the company in February 2001, the designers were two British consultants whose attempts to revive the label included products like black catsuits with...
...year later, I’m back at Harvard. My life today and my life a year ago seem to belong to different worlds. Life at Harvard is, as Saltonstall Professor of History Charles S. Maier of Historical Studies B-54, “World War and Society in the 20th Century: World War II” might put it, war: a strategy of maximizing resources within limitations. There are papers to write and meetings to attend, admissions committees to impress and social appearances to make. There are always accomplishments in the queue and successes on the schedule...
...book opens with Lily Maier, age thirteen, moving (again!) into a "stupid," "ugly" house that looks like all the others. With a mostly absent father and a mother with two small children to watch, Lily has little to do with her family short of getting into near-comical spats with her slightly younger sister. "Summer of Love" moves along as Lily navigates new friends and new feelings of love while trying not be outcast or gain a bad reputation. Though it takes place in the late 1960s, nothing much has changed about the suburban teenage life except that they apparently...
...basements." Some had trouble reconciling their warm image of a merciful God with the chilling warnings they were reading. "They're asking people to believe that we have a God who simply can't wait to zap the Christian flight crew out of jets so they crash?" asks Paul Maier, a professor of ancient history at Western Michigan University and an author of Christian fiction, who finds in the Left Behind books a deity he does not recognize. "You can't believe in a God who would do this kind of thing...