Word: milan
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...That was then. Today, the septuagenarian pair are increasingly hostile business rivals, whose subordinates snipe in the Italian press and target each other's star television talent. "It's getting aggressive now, some low blows," says Pietro Candela, a media consultant with Booz and Co. in Milan. "This is what real, nasty competition looks like." (See pictures of Rupert Murdoch...
...caliber should play,” Stone said. “She’s doing her part. She’s taking responsibility.” Kessler made her most important contribution of the game after junior Kathryn Farni took down Colgate’s Hannah Milan on a breakaway at 11:27 in the third and with the score tied. Milan was awarded a penalty shot, but Kessler was ready for her, denying the attempt and preventing the Raiders from taking the lead. “[Kessler is] doing a great job of being focused...
...happened accidentally. I was doing my military service and I had 20 days off on vacation in Milan. A friend said, "Do you want to work for two weeks for a photographer in a department store?" and I said yes. I started assisting the photographer, designing the windows and things. Soon after that they asked me to oversee the fashion. And I thought, Why not? It was creative work. It involved teamwork. After a few years I realized that this was really what I wanted to do for the rest of my life...
...workers first when layoffs arrive. The Italian Senate approved a bill Thursday that encourages doctors to turn in illegal immigrants who they've treated. Put simply, bad times fuel xenophobia. "History is full of cases of scapegoating triggered by economic crisis," says Francesco Billari, a professor of demography at Milan's Bocconi University. "Immigrants make an easy scapegoat: if you can't fight China, you can fight the Chinese at home...
...Complaint: Andres Felipe Alonso-Rodriguez flew on Ryanair last August from Valencia, Spain, to Milan. At check-in, the scale at the airline counter showed that his bag weighed 12 kg (26.5 lb.), 2 kg above the limit for a carry-on, so Alonso-Rodriguez was forced to check it. The cost: 20 euros. That's almost one euro for every one of his names...