Word: metropolitanism
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...Ning Sports hopes to maintain home-court advantage by attacking the foreign brands in metropolitan China, in part by exploiting growing national pride during the run-up to the 2008 Olympics to be held in Beijing. The company recently hired ad agency Leo Burnett Beijing and set aside $11 million for marketing this year, one of the biggest corporate-marketing budgets in China. Higher-end product lines, created with the help of top sports-shoe designers Massimiliano Zago of Italy and Paviot Jean-Philippe of France, are being added to counteract the brand's bargain-bin tinge...
...separate exhibitions will travel to museums such as the Metropolitan Museum and the National Gallery of Art in London. One will feature European artworks dating from 1800 to 1920, and the other will be composed of Chinese pieces...
...19th-Century Paintings and Drawings From the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University” will travel to the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, France, from March 15 to May 26; the National Gallery of Art in London from June 25 to Sept. 14, 2003; the Metropolitan Museum of Art from Oct. 20, 2003, to Jan. 11, 2004; and the National Gallery of Art in Washington from...
...Mary McCarthy, are really the meatiest part of the correspondence inspired by that legendary m?salliance), these letters are filled with wonderfully caustic appraisals of everything from Robert Frost ("partly a dreadful old fraud and one of the most relentless self-promoters in the history of American literature") to the Metropolitan Opera house in the newly-constructed Lincoln Center ("a miracle of bad taste and ineptitude"), as well as the financial perils of the freelance life (some of the more amusing letters in the book are Wilson's epistles to his various publishers, for which "curt" hardly does justice...
Realizing that school integration will not happen on its own, some have tried to artificially speed the process to benefit both urban and suburban students. The Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (Metco) buses approximately 3,300 minority students from Boston and Springfield into the mostly-white suburbs surrounding the city. Begun in 1966, Metco now has a waiting list of 15,000 students, many of whom were placed on the list by their parents soon after they were born in order to reserve a spot...