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...estimates, Lacroix generated about $39 million in sales from its couture, ready-to-wear and licensing businesses--with a loss of $13 million. Those in the designer's inner circle say Lacroix is bitter about the way LVMH'S chairman, Bernard Arnault, handled the sale, although Arnault shows little regret. "For 17 years we have worked to transform the company, and we have not been successful," he says. "It's time to focus on our core businesses and those brands like [Louis] Vuitton that have the most potential...
Summers issued three statements of apology last week. In the final, most contrite one, he said, "I deeply regret the impact of my comments ... I was wrong to have spoken in a way that has resulted in an unintended signal of discouragement to talented girls and women." Nevertheless, his original remarks set off a furor that will not quickly die down. A letter endorsed by some 120 Harvard professors said the speech reinforced "an institutional culture at Harvard that erects numerous barriers to improving the representation of women on the faculty...
...deeply regret the impact of my comments and apologize for not having weighed them more carefully,” Summers wrote in an open letter to the Harvard community...
...greatly regret all the fall-out that has come out of the way my remarks have been understood particularly because they have been read as suggesting that I believe things that I do not believe,” he added...
...things I've learned is that sometimes words have consequences you don't intend them to mean. 'Bring them on' is a classic example." GEORGE W. BUSH, the U.S. President, expressing regret for two statements he made during his first term. The other was his promise that the U.S. would bring in Osama bin Laden "dead or alive...