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Bridge lines are clearly the right response to the recession, but more than economic factors explain their success. The second collections, speculates Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour, are in synch with the "breaking up of fashion," in her words. "Women are looking for things that are more their own," she says, "and less of a designer statement." In other words, fewer women feel the need to wear Armani or Karan or any label head to toe. They'll happily pair a Chanel jacket, say, with a DKNY skirt and not worry about getting reported to the fashion police...
Indeed, the national squad looked out of synch all night, failing to capitalize on chances in front of the net and missing key passes...
Here is the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, diligently trying to add greater luster and further lucre to the music biz by modernizing the Grammy Awards and trying to slip them into some semblance of synch with contemporary taste. It took NARAS until 1979 to give rock its own category, but lately it has cooked up a slot for everything from...
...Dartmouth's Warhol-esque dream went awry as the out-of-synch Crimson offense exploded, with forward Peter Ciavaglia's hat trick highlighting an 8-2 Harvard blowout...
...long hours and getting little rest are bad enough. But people who work unusual shifts face a double whammy. About 20% of U.S. employees toil during the evening or night hours, or rotate through day, evening and night duty. Such workers are both sleep starved and out of synch with their natural sleep-wake cycle. For most people, biological alertness peaks in the morning and early evening. It dips mildly in the afternoon (hence the tendency toward midday naps) and plummets between midnight and dawn. Night workers are butting against those rhythms, forcing themselves to stay awake just when their...