Word: sagaing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Susan Boyle saga is probably a prime example of what you discuss in your book about how people perceive whether a woman looks good for her age. Everyone was so hysterical about whether she should be made over. The fact is that this is a woman who is like a lot of others out there, but because she was on TV, she suddenly looked like a freak. She is what people look like. (Watch TIME's video "Susan Boyle...
...leaving Monday's meeting with the Prime Minister, one MP lamented missing "10 minutes of Coronation Street". Just like the popular British soap opera, the saga over Brown's future looks set to run and run. - With reporting by Catherine Mayer / London...
...fact, what the entire Palin saga really shows is what a hard time the Republican establishment is having in pleasing its conservative base and trying to expand it. Palin, after all, is at the top of many lists of possible 2012 presidential contenders, and she remains hugely popular with the Republican base. But she'll never get elected without the support of an establishment that still has its doubts about her mainstream viability. These people need each other; if only they could figure out how to break bread with one another...
...recent global financial crisis. Despite his enormous creativity and influence on fashion, Lacroix could never turn a profit. Many of the press reports on the house's failures blamed the designer's underperforming stores in New York City and Las Vegas. But at the heart of the Lacroix saga is an unsuccessful perfume launch that dates back to 1990, and his continuing inability to translate his unique high-end fashion flair into more accessible products, like fragrance, lipstick and accessories. As a result, Arnault sold the brand in 2005 to the Falic Group, a Florida-based business known...
...perfect storm. All of the mainstream parties have been damaged by the expenses saga, and fringe parties could reap the benefits at the polls. But for Brown, the scandal has unleashed forces in his own party that he may not be able to subdue. After Smith's husband was found to have submitted claims for two pornographic movies, her Cabinet future looked uncertain. Blears, too, has been tarnished by allegations that she failed to pay the capital gains tax on the sale of property she had officially designated as her second home, in order to claim the MPs' second-home...