Word: strengthing
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...produced triple-digit growth, with distribution hurtling from 40 stores to more than 450 worldwide in just four seasons. But a collaboration with Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto to produce Y-3, a sports-fashion range that focuses on style above functionality, has been less successful. Part of the strength of the sports-fashion fusion is that it appeals to global tastes of both genders. At Adidas' Tokyo launch for Stella McCartney, Japanese men - typically smaller than men in the West - raced to buy the women's clothes for themselves, according to Nelly Kennedy, head of global lifestyle p.r. at Adidas...
...English has been amusingly defined as the result of Norman men-at-arms trying to pick up Saxon barmaids. Its pragmatic, flexible nature has always been one of its great strengths. Make English the official language, and you will lose that strength. Why? Because if we make English the official language, then we must officially define what English is and is not. The French did this with their mother tongue, and what was once the international language of diplomacy has become an increasingly unimportant and backwater dialect. Joseph Power Mountain View, California...
English has been amusingly defined as the result of Norman men-at-arms trying to pick up Saxon barmaids. Its pragmatic, flexible nature has always been one of its great strengths. Make English the official language, and we will lose that strength. Why? Because then we must officially define what English is and is not. The French did this with their mother tongue, and what was once the international language of diplomacy has become increasingly unimportant...
...only one who could hold his own with Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson. Roosevelt not only remade America, but he also charmed the pants off everybody while he did it. And just short of a century after he left the White House, in 1909, the collective memory of his strength and intellect and charisma still lingers. How many times over the years since have Americans settled their affections on some thoughtful, vigorous man who reminded them a bit of Roosevelt? What was Ernest Hemingway if not a later edition of Teddy, without the burden of office but still equipped with...
...judgment and persuasion, Roosevelt believed in "immediate and rigorous executive action" in times of crisis. And whether they agreed with him or not, Americans knew where this human dynamo stood on the great issues of his time. Driven by a fervent belief in the Declaration of Independence, he drew strength from his faith that all Americans "stand on the same footing," as human beings worthy of respect. And like all great leaders, he inspired those he led, turning his convictions into theirs...