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...something because it is trendy or it has a really cool design or because he or she is feeling blue and needs a pick-me-up. It is someone who cares less about durability and more about emotional satisfaction and appeal. (See "Recession Shopping: 10 Things to Buy Right...
What is something that serves as an emotional need? It depends on the person. For example, expensive athletic shoes like Nikes - the right style or model - are totally superfluous and over-priced, but kids who don't have the right kind of shoe face potential ostracism from their peers. I'm not arguing that everyone should go out and buy their kids $120 Nikes, I'm just saying that there is a social pressure - a sense of need. A kid who has those shoes may feel better about himself than if he didn't have them...
...selling great-fitting jeans for 40 years." Then I walked into an Express store. The music was up-tempo and hipper. It wasn't edgy, but there was a lot more bass. Instead of legacy sales, it all had to do with trend. The layered look is very in right now; by selling things that go together there is a much greater chance that a store is going to sell you more than one item...
...choice does not come down to mere merit - politics, geography and gender will also play a part. E.U. leaders will want to make sure that the three posts of E.U. president, foreign policy chief and European Commission president are split between candidates from the centre-left and centre-right parties, big and small member states, northern and southern Europe, and, if possible, include a woman. (Former Irish President Mary Robinson has emerged as a potential E.U. president candidate.) (See TIME's photos: "New Hope For Belfast...
Denied the right to march in the streets, the opposition movement has taken advantage of days when the state allows, even encourages, large gatherings. The phenomenon of "protest by piggybacking" began just after the disputed June 12 elections, with an opposition rally timed to coincide with the yearly commemoration of the assassination of an important revolutionary leader in June 1981. Several weeks later in September, an even larger crowd dressed in green and numbering in the tens of thousands effectively hijacked the annual Jerusalem Day rallies held across the country. Shouts of "Death to Israel" were replaced by a chorus...