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CLOTHING Lane Bryant has targeted full-figured women for more than a century, but its new owner, Charming Shoppes, a plus-size retailer, opened 60 outlets last year, for a total of 696. Today 70% of the parent firm's $2.5 billion in revenues flow from the purses of the rubenesque. "Our customer is the average woman," says Dorrit Bern, Charming Shoppes CEO, "not the minority...
...signed into law (President Bill Clinton vetoed it both times). But G.O.P. strategists concede it is unlikely that other measures--like a bill to make it a separate crime to injure a fetus during an attack on a pregnant woman or legislation making it illegal to evade state parent-notification laws by taking a minor across state lines--will become priorities for the President or get through the closely divided Senate. "If all they can muster is the elimination of one abortion method, that's a loss," says former antiabortion lobbyist Teresa Wagner, editor of a new book of essays...
...door for states to impose greater limits on the right to an abortion, activists have taken up the fight state by state, measure by measure. In the past seven years, 335 new restrictions have been put on the books around the country, according to NARAL. Most common are parent-notification laws, required waiting periods, and state-mandated lectures and literature about fetal development and alternatives to abortion such as adoption. In Alabama, women have to get sonograms before they can end their pregnancies. While a few states such as California have liberalized their laws, the trend is very much...
...shakes hands politely, is soft-spoken, and offers a cup of coffee. Reclining on a floral couch he displays none of the rebel attitude that makes his stage performances such a hit. Raymzter (pronounced rhymster) is the sort of rapper you could take home to meet the parents. In fact, it's the parents of Raymzter's Italian producer, Massimo Baudo, who open the door of the neat terraced house on a new housing estate outside Amsterdam, when a reporter arrives for a visit. In a tiny studio in the attic, Raymzter is putting the finishing touches on his debut...
...just wish he had not seen his empire plunge into disaster," said one worker clocking off at Fiat's Mirafiori plant in Turin. The heirs of Fiat (the family controls 34% of the stock) inherit a desperate company. Fiat Auto lost j1.35 billion last year, and the parent company was forced to string together a huge j3 billion loan just to keep operating. At least j3 billion in additional capital will be needed, according to analysts. Fiat recently announced a plan to cut at least 8,000 jobs, provoking bitter workers to block airports, roads and factories. In Agnelli...