Word: souped
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...executive suite with dealmakers from the world of luxury goods to give him talent on the inside and street cred on the outside, poaching from the likes of Neiman Marcus. Camille McDonald, whom Fiske wooed away from LVMH Moët Hennessy--Louis Vuitton to develop new brands and soup up the old ones, says the decision to leave the crème of the luxury-universe crème was "gut wrenching." But after reading Trading Up and having a lot of long talks with Fiske, she realized that a fundamental shift was under way and that she could choose...
When the waters come down, they will expose a city that will have been steeping for weeks in a noxious soup. Although emergency-management officials are relieved that the flooding did not crack open the storage tanks of the large petrochemical factories south and east of the city, the waters still contain a poisonous mix of gasoline, household and industrial chemicals and stinking human waste. They will leave a layer of heavily contaminated silt everywhere. John Pardue, director of the Louisiana Water Resources Research Institute at Louisiana State University, says, "We're going to have to find out how deep...
...storm moved through on Monday, some streets were essentially dry. Then shortly after midnight, a section almost as long as a football field in a main levee near the 17th Street Canal ruptured, letting Lake Pontchartrain pour in. The city itself turned into a superbowl, roadways crumbled like soup crackers as the levees designed to protect them were now holding the water in. Engineers tried dropping 3,000-lb. sandbags, but the water just swallowed them. As the days passed, the Army Corps of Engineers, which oversees the levees, admitted they weren't able to assess what might work. Part...
...even limited distribution. The government now requires pre-air approval for all foreign shows. Viacom last year announced a deal to produce children's programming but hasn't got approval yet. Now problems at News Corp., says a top Asia executive for a U.S. media company, "will spoil the soup for everyone...
...first few weeks of campaigning, Merkel and the cdu made some amateurish mistakes, appearing divided and, at times, muddled. Even the choice of theme song doesn't seem to have been thought through. The Rolling Stones are startled to hear that the track from their album Goats Head Soup has been pressed into service. "We didn't grant permission," a spokesman for the musicians told Time. "We are surprised that permission was not requested. If it had been requested, we would have said no." A spokesman for the cdu says the party cleared usage of excerpts from the song with...