Word: marshals
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...clearly entering into a new time, and it is being driven by the consumer," says Marshal Cohen, industry analyst at NPD Group in New York. "The consumer is buying products that are more relevant, and it is swaying the way the industry operates. Brands are having to make their products' functions speak louder than their blitz...
...ensuing evening show was hosted by Class Marshal Lauren N. Westbrook ’07 and Undergraduate Council Vice President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09, who added humor to the show by wearing a wig and throwing out T-shirts autographed by Fishburne...
...Germans bred like rabbits. Prussia's victory in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1871 strengthened the idea that having babies was a patriotic duty, an idea compounded by the national trauma of World War I, which cost France 10% of its working-age male population. Well before Marshal Pétain placed the Vichy regime under the slogan of "work, family and fatherland," keeping the French population alive had been a national priority...
...time figuring that out. Meanwhile, competitors surged ahead, as Gap's sales fell 2%, to $14.8 billion last year. "It used to be that the Gap dictated fashion, but now customers have so many resources, they dictate what they want and see if a store has it," says Marshal Cohen, chief analyst at the NPD Group. And they found what they wanted everywhere, from Target to Wal-Mart to Abercrombie & Fitch. The Gap may have invented cheap chic, but it steadily lost customers to stores that were cheaper, chicer or both...
...none of these is likely to upset Whitaker's front-runner status. As the self-proclaimed "His Excellency President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea, and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa and Uganda," the normally soft-spoken actor gives the kind of booming, effortlessly charismatic performance that charms Oscar voters. No matter that the film has grossed only $5.5 million in four months in the theaters. The acting awards are where Hollywood does its good deeds, regardless...