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That was nine years ago. Since then, Bradley has discarded the orange coat as a victim of '90s color schemes, but she continues to craft her own fashions. She has recently taken to purchasing vintage skirts from thrift stores and embellishing them with images she has either photographed or created on her computer. She prints them on transfer paper and, with a household iron, customizes the skirts by applying the images to the fabric. "I love the creativity without the pressure of worrying about what's in style," she marvels. "I'm my own arbiter of what's fashionable...
...Investors' choices would be limited, much as they are under the Thrift Savings Plan now available to federal-government workers, who can invest in five broad, general funds: a large-cap stock fund, a small-cap stock fund, an international stock fund, a corporate-bond fund and a Treasury-bond fund. The government would also offer what is called a life-cycle fund, in which the mix of investments changes according to the investor's age. None of those options are particularly sexy, but because they are more diversified than individual stocks and bonds, they are less likely to suffer...
...gambit didn't work because it's not what drives him anymore. Lines like "The road of Providence is uneven and unpredictable-yet we know where it leads: It leads to Freedom." were a tad more soaring that his riffs about asbestos litigation or the Thrift Savings Plan available to federal workers which, by the way, is an add on to Social Security for workers like GS-11s, not a replacement...
...Vintage: it’s always cool to say you stole it from the parentals’ closet, but even if your parents didn’t wear Armani or awesome graphic tees, you can always head to a nearby thrift store and scrounge for bargains...
...Olympic projects, it was hoped, would mark China's economic growth and proclaim its arrival as a world power. Now times have changed. Last week Liu Qi, president of the Beijing Olympic-organizing committee, scrapped half the planned stadiums in a demonstration of what he called "the principle of thrift." But in Beijing, observers of the always opaque Chinese leadership are wondering if the new policy smacks of political infighting as much as it does of economy...