Word: rigueur
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...national romance with consumer debt seems to be coming, at least for now, to a screeching halt because of the realities of the Great Recession. Belt-tightening, whether it's imposed by job loss or financial insecurity, is de rigueur. The savings rate is 4.4%, up from its 2007 rock-bottom level. Book publishers are hurrying to catch up with the rediscovered restraint. Three authors with new books are eager to restore fiscal conservatism to its proper, vaunted role. Being thrifty has become a badge of honor...
...After India's partition in 1947, it used to be de rigueur for Delhi old-timers, who prided themselves on their Mughal courts-inspired etiquette and culture, to blame the influx of Punjabis for the city's civil decay. Having lost all they had in the butchery that accompanied partition, these Punjabis were intent on succeeding in this alien land - and they did. The Punjabis are among the richest communities in Delhi today, owning many of the city's largest and most successful businesses. In the process, they became accused of injecting a new ruthlessness into the city...
...There's been so much written about and spoken about in the mainstream media and in the anonymous blogosphere world that this will be a wonderful, refreshing chance for me to get to tell my story that a lot of people have asked about, unfiltered." It's become de rigueur for presidential candidates to produce such tomes. There's a high bar, though; Barack Obama's Dreams from my Father has been on the New York Times best-seller list for 153 weeks in paperback, after a star turn in hardcover. Still, the mystery over the motivation for Palin...
...Champagne-producing majority, though, a wait-and-see attitude seems de rigueur. "Even if I'm very convinced, we're going to need some time before we adopt these systems wholesale," says producer Drappier, who has tested both the Mytik Diamant and the Maestro. After all, he asks, what would Champagne Drappier's most famous client have thought? "Charles de Gaulle liked his Champagne bottles as simple as a jar of Mom's homemade jam, so I think he'd have been slow to warm to anything too gadgety." If success for Champagne's cork innovators depends on pleasing public...
...only expected but de rigueur in the cult of the North American suburban gothic that every SUV-driving, Levi’s-wearing mother secretly pops Adderall at her son’s soccer games or constantly downs Chardonnay to ease the pain of her husband’s extra-marital affair with his male coworker. Or something like that.James Boice echoes an all-too-common fear of sameness and suburban alienation when he describes the citizens of his hometown of Little Rocky Run, Virginia: “And they went to the gym after work and met their friends...