Word: pays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many of the rising young models are thinking of runways as a way to get recognized by movie producers, or just a way to pay for college. Meanwhile the old supermodels are fading partly because fashion is inherently short-lived. "It became very dull, just seeing six people at the center of most magazines," says Katie Ford, CEO of Ford Modeling Agency. Gilles Bensimon, creative director for Elle and the former husband of Elle Macpherson, says, "Claudia Schiffer is the best example of the rise and fall of a model. For me, we don't need her. She doesn...
...were all tuned in to the same narrative, one involving a war, a President, blacks vs. cops and narcs vs. hippies. Today's counterculturalists, raised on 60 channels of cable TV, the Net and the Web, have less impetus to fix their attention on the main event. Youths who pay attention to politics today form a subculture almost as small as boomers who are Tricky fans...
...your current lender to meet the best deal available elsewhere. He can be especially helpful if you are self-employed or have irregular sources of income and don't fit neatly into traditional categories. Besides, reputable brokers are paid by the lenders at about the same rate as they pay the Internet companies that refer homeowners. How do you find a good broker? Ask your friends or a real estate agent you trust...
...finished writing my second average-length stage play, which is going to be produced at my high school. And I'm also playing Malcolm in a production of Macbeth. Despite all these really great things, my marks in school are really bad, and I mean really, really bad. I pay more attention to my hobbies than to school, and it's actually getting me somewhere. So marks aren't everything. ALAN HOLMAN, age 17 Saskatoon, Sask...
...American Automobile Manufacturers Association, representing General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, refused to help pay for the latest anti-Kyoto TV ads produced by the Global Climate Information Project, an alliance of industry, labor and farm groups. And last week Washington's World Resources Institute brought together executives from GM, British Petroleum and Monsanto to pledge that their companies would contribute less to the greenhouse effect. "There is a rising tide of environmental awareness," says incoming Ford chairman William Clay Ford Jr. "Smart companies will get ahead of the wave. Those that don't are headed for a wipeout...