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...easily matched and made into necklaces (before that, it could take up to 10 years to find enough matching pearls to make a strand). It was Coco Chanel who exploited the discovery of cultured pearls and probably did more than any other woman to give them a modern swing, piling them on and mixing real with costume...
...years after opening their first boutique, the Cohens sold 70% of the company to Edmond de Rothschild Capital Partners, an investment group specializing in growing small and medium-size companies for resale. At a recent press conference, Bonpoint executives noted that their expansion plan was in full swing: annual sales growth averages 14%, with estimated sales of $54.9 million in 2006. The company has opened 20 new boutiques in three years, for a total of 60 shops by the end of the year, including stores relocated on prime luxury-shopping streets in Paris, London and New York City...
...both houses of Congress as a result of the midterm elections is not a mandate but a challenge to both major parties to work cooperatively to solve the nation's foreign and domestic problems. Kirk D. Gulden Wilkesboro, North Carolina, U.S. I believe the midterm elections may finally swing the pendulum back from President Ronald Reagan's conservative revolution. But it took the needlessly spilled blood of too many young Americans to do it. Tragically, Reagan's "Morning in America" has become mourning in America. Russell Kussman Los Angeles Kklein quoted a senior administration official who referred to the failure...
...What's constitutionally required one day gets constitutionally prohibited the next day?" she pondered. "That's very odd." But the newest members of the Court, Justice Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts, seemed skeptical of such open-ended social engineering. And Justice Anthony Kennedy, who could be the swing vote in this case, worried about the Supreme Court letting a school district that is no longer under court supervision use skin color as a basis for student assignment. Such a precedent, he said, "takes us on a very perilous course...
...believe the midterm elections may finally swing the pendulum back from President Ronald Reagan's conservative revolution. But it took the needlessly spilled blood of too many young Americans to do it. Tragically, Reagan's "Morning in America" has become mourning in America...