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...this trend is obviously troubling. Children named after products inevitably become associated with them; so, with a name like Chanel, a girl would easily be associated with pricey makeup. People first encountering her conspicuously chichi name quickly deem Chanel a materialist snob...
AMERICAN GIRL: Classic (and pricey) doll...
...Jones received a rare lemon. But in the latest survey of three-year depend-ability by J.D. Power & Associates, American consumers ranked VW-brand cars 34th, ahead of only Suzuki, Daewoo, Land Rover and Kia. Consumer Reports, which recommended three VW models in the late 1990s, keeps only the pricey Passat on its list of recommended cars. That's quite a tumble for the Volkswagen Group, Europe's largest automaker, which turns out 5 million units a year under brands including Audi, Bugatti, Seat and Skoda...
...real estate, people pay for location, and last week Coldwell Banker showed homeowners just how pricey that premium can be. In a survey of more than 300 markets, the real estate brokerage found that a 2,200-sq.-ft., four-bedroom house in a neighborhood "typical for corporate middle management" can vary in cost by up to $1.2 million depending on the city. The most expensive locale was La Jolla, Calif.; the least costly was Binghamton, N.Y. How much would you have to spend in a market of your choosing? Go to ColdwellBanker.com click on Site Map, then Info Center...
Participating in ROTC-in-exile makes a difficult task all the more difficult. Drawn by a sense of duty to their country or by the ROTC scholarship that lets students go to pricey schools, ROTC cadets are certainly some of the most committed people at Harvard. In addition to taking a full slate of Harvard classes, the cadets hop on a shuttle van daily at about 6 am to make the trek to MIT. There, they participate in grueling physical drills as well as classes in military science...