Word: minding
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...tiny little town in Minnesota. We were nowhere near a big city, and our source of fashion was catalogs, but I just knew this was what I wanted to do, so I started designing my own clothes, sewing," says Stordahl. Was she a trendsetter? "In my own mind," she says, laughing. She did something right; soon she was studying at the Fashion Institute of Technology and NYU in New York City and rising through the ranks at Bullock's Wilshire and I. Magnin...
...general, affluent consumers in Russia have the greatest top-of-mind awareness of foreign luxury brands compared with China and India because the Russian luxury market is more developed and more European in nature...
Typically freshmen were pressured by their advisers not to take two seminars lest concentration requirements be neglected. The head of the Freshman Seminar program herself offered such advice to one of my students: Though she undoubtedly believed she had his interests in mind, her counsel of course undermined the integrity and continuity of my own efforts. The Freshman Seminar committee suggested, indeed, that I approach the new Humanities program, but the latter replied last spring that no new courses were welcome and the faculty had not yet decided anything about the future...
...Levin and Reed believe that with the return of Senator Tim Johnson of South Dakota, their measure will start with a baseline of 53 Senators, assuming no one changes his or her mind, as Virginia Senator John Warner did earlier this week on Jim Webb's proposal to limit the length of troop deployments overseas...
...outside China angered nationalists. But Sotheby's argued that it would likely have ended up on the mainland even if it went to auction. "We were quite confident that the object there stood a very good chance of falling into the hands of a Chinese collector, bearing in mind the search and demand and interest of mainland Chinese collectors for important works of Chinese art, especially those of great historical significance," says Kevin Ching, CEO of Sotheby's Asia. For China's wealthy new elite, buying Chinese artifacts from abroad has become a symbol of both status and patriotism...