Word: specializing
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...better off with a "supersovereign" reserve currency, in place of one issued by a specific nation - in other words, the dollar. "The frequency and increasing intensity of financial crises," Zhou said, "suggests the costs of such a system to the world may have exceeded its benefits." Zhou recommended turning Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), the unit of account used by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), into the premier international currency. Then a U.N. panel of economists led by Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel laureate, concluded that a reformed financial system with a new No. 1 international currency would help bring greater strength...
...more than just write a check to an African-based charity, and many in the luxury business share his commitment to give back. Even in the fine-jewelry business, designers are taking the long view, using reclaimed gold to save one of our most imperiled natural resources. This special supplement to TIME is dedicated to answering the imperative question, What's next? Thanks to creative forces like Watanabe and Osterweis, global luxury has a whole new directive...
Mixed Media Designers combine plastic with more traditional materials like leather. This page: Proenza Schouler lacquered bag (Capitol, Charlotte, N.C., 704-552-8987); Manolo Blahnik Gattanbuck slingback (special order from Manolo Blahnik...
Opposite page: Renaud Pellegrino Clyde bag (special order from Renaud Pellegrino, Paris...
...dialogue,” he said. “It’s sort of a natural extension of what I should be doing anyway. This is a more efficient way to do it.” Oggi’s Gourmet in the Holyoke Center, a restaurant that specializes in pizza, has a Twitter account run primarily by its co-founders Steve R. Welch and Bill Warner under the username “oggigourmet.”“The marketing tool that Twitter gave us was to be able to say less tailored things, talking in slang...