Word: slacks
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...wild card," notes James Mitchell, analyst at the brokerage firm Putnam Lovell. "He hasn't been out front before. That's where he's really got to pick up the slack." Prince doesn't necessarily accept that. "Everybody's personality is different," he told TIME. "I don't expect to see myself in the society pages." That's fine with Citi's board. "What good is a high profile?" says Richard Parsons, who is CEO of AOL Time Warner (which publishes TIME) and a Citi director. "We need somebody who can actually do some stuff...
...America, and the rest from Europe. "Over the past two years, with concerns about travel and the war in Iraq, we've seen a decrease in requests from the U.S.," says Regency's Sara Gennari. But, she hastens to add, European clients - especially Brits - are helping pick up the slack. WeddingItaly coordinator Laura Frappa says that the Americans who form the bulk of her company's business have been deterred more by the weak exchange rate than by fears of terrorism or anti-Americanism. Part of the appeal of a destination wedding is that it can actually save money...
...just 2 MB of memory, two hours of battery life and the old Palm OS 4.1, it can't be as quick and versatile as a full-size PDA. Fossil recommends that you stick to applications "designed for the smaller screen size." You'll have to cut it some slack for not having the latest Palm features like Wi-Fi connectivity, a built-in camera or a color screen. Still, it will free up space in your increasingly crowded pockets, and it's a guaranteed conversation starter--at least in some circles. Oh, yes, it also tells time, with customizable...
...thought it was all over. This virus gives no slack." DONALD LOW, chief of microbiology at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, after the city suffered a new outbreak of SARS...
...veritable Bruegel painting of inept retailing. It illustrates so many frustrating aspects of a bad shopping trip--lousy sales support, shallow inventory, poor use of technology--that it's almost thrilling to think of all the potential for improvement that it suggests. With many retailers struggling in this slack economy, you would think they would redouble their attention to the basics--and the best chains and local managers are doing just that. But industry experts share my amazement that so many stores don't execute well what ought to be the obvious rules of their business...