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...person hamlet an hour north of Times Square--has a long history of standing up for itself. In 1897, after the state condemned the town to make way for a reservoir to serve the booming metropolis to the south, residents picked up their homes and moved a mile away. Literally. They loaded more than 55 houses and stores onto log rails greased with laundry soap and used horses to pull the buildings to a new town site. The Move, which is commemorated at the Katonah library with a diorama, took six months and is still talked about with pride. "There...
...chair pads. "I guess that's workable," said Jim Raneri, a co-owner of Charles department store, housed in one of the buildings that made the Move back in 1897. Others in town were more dubious. "I have a hunch, give her an inch, she'll take a mile," said Tom Kiley, a co-owner of the photo shop Katonah Image. Yet for any town that's ever fought a giant, the result was heartening. Maybe Katonah will lose something by having its name trademarked. But it almost certainly gains something in the way it stood up for itself...
Take Ormen Lange, the name of the deep-sea field 75 miles (120 km) from Nyhamna. Hover over the sea above the enormous gas reservoir, and you won't see a rig. Instead, the company overcame underwater peaks, subzero temperatures and powerful currents to build extraction installations directly on the seabed half a mile (1 km) below the surface. In a couple of hours, extracted gas reaches the Nyhamna plant, where it's processed and sent to Britain via the world's longest underwater pipeline (it's a trip that can take as little as two days). In full swing...
...Donna Karan, Fendi, and Givenchy, in addition to Louis Vuitton itself. Brands and other intangibles, as might be suspected, play a staggering role in their financial holdings, accounting for 8.2 billion euros, or 29 percent of total assets. And these billions of dollars of ad campaigning—those mile-long legs of Fendi’s Raquel Zimmermann from the summer billboards —are working. Last year, Louis Vuitton recorded 11 percent revenue growth in its fashion and leathers business segment. Market research expects global expenditure on retail luxury products to hit $450 billion annually...
...swimming and diving team. “It’s pretty amazing.” When asked what his most grueling physical test has been, he replied, “Probably the crew team triathlon. It’s a 7500 meter erg and a four-mile run and then a full tour of the stadium. The heavyweight team does it in December as something to keep our focus on when we don’t have any races.” “Coxswains aren’t required to run that...