Word: maintainence
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...perhaps not surprising then that control was the issue at the heart of the decision last week by Ford and his business partner, Domenico De Sole, to leave Gucci. It was what the duo had been fighting to maintain for the past year as they negotiated the terms of their contracts with Serge Weinberg, the low-key but firm chief executive of PPR. The pair's departure, if inevitable, was still the most cataclysmic thing to happen to the fashion world since Gianni Versace's murder in 1997. It rocked the luxury-goods business from Madison Avenue to the Place...
...Klein's column on the debate over the Administration's request for $87 billion to maintain the occupation and begin rebuilding Iraq is an example of how the Republicans have framed the issue [Oct. 27]. Either you backed the entire $87 billion, or you voted against supporting our troops. That's nonsense. The onus should have been put on the Administration to provide accountability and allow Congress to do its job of appropriating money in chunks smaller than $87 billion. JACQUELINE BUEHRING Naperville...
Macaulay’s training as an architect—he graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a degree in architecture—allows him to pull double duty as both writer and illustrator, and maintain full creative control over his books. It is that control which appealed to him about book production, causing him to decide, just months before graduating college, that architecture was “a profession of compromise” between all those involved in the industry...
Byrne, one of the all-time leading scorers at Milton Academy, was recruited by several ECAC schools, but came to Harvard as a middle infielder, not a hockey player, and will maintain his primary commitment to the varsity baseball team...
...much outrage. Little, however, has been said about the treatment of visiting students. The Harvard administration has also chosen to wait out the decision and see how other universities respond first. But this strategy is too timid. MIT president Charles M. Vest has been outspoken about the need to maintain freedom and diversity in universities, with the belief that it is in the best interests of the country as a whole. Harvard’s approach of gaining favor with the government is supposedly beneficial to the University, because when it needs to get something accomplished government agencies will...