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...brass is Patrizio Bertelli of Prada Group, who does not have an M.B.A., uses only Italian in a multilingual peer group and has a fiery temperament. Bertelli has proved brilliant at steering the Prada and Miu Miu brands with his wife Miuccia Prada. But acquisitions have been rockier. Following a brief honeymoon period after Prada Group acquired the majority stake in Jil Sander, the eponymous designer walked, returned, then walked for good in 2004, to be replaced by Raf Simons. (The Jil Sander company was sold earlier this year to the British-based investment fund Change Capital Partners...
...where ethanol is usually made from corn, it has had a rockier road partly because government subsidies are seen as benefiting big producers. Brazil's ethanol industry has created nearly 1 million jobs and helped cut oil imports. Says Alfred Szwarc, an expert with Săo Paulo's sugar-cane association: "People see Flex cars as the car of the future...
While Nadosy’s interim post was announced alongside the strong returns on Harvard’s investments in fiscal 2005, the temporary leadership structure at HMC seems poised to produce a rockier transition than University officials had first sought—an arrangement that, according to Rothenberg, will include Meyer and his colleagues as advisors “for some time...
Charbonneau said he hopes to make infrared observations on smaller, rockier planets in the future, which he said is exciting because these planets are similar to Earth...
Cedars was mastered by former Cocteau Twin Simon Raynolds, and the songs are uniformly coated in a glossy veneer, with sweeping doses of strings and bells. “It’s a lot rockier,” Woodward said about the album in concert. “It would be neat, someday, to do an orchestral type thing, think guys?” The other band members nod in approval...