Word: trailing
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Last November I went to Tokyo to trail Giorgio Armani while he opened the first Armani tower in Ginza. What struck me most?apart from the marvelous idea of seeing the ultimate minimalist designer in the birthplace of minimalism?was the way Armani kept positioning his brand for a younger generation of Japanese consumers. Everything, right down to the way the handbags and small leather goods were displayed in the window of his new shop, was about luring these coveted new luxury aficionados into Armani's universe. All around the world, designers and luxury executives are jockeying to appeal...
...voting groups: Latinos, women, security moms that in 2004 made the difference." Likewise the up-for-grabs freshmen get near weekly calls from the Obama campaign, offers to meet with the candidates and their spouses and invitations to travel and see the candidates in action and experience the campaign trail...
...This theme is one that Hsieh is pounding home on the campaign trail. At a late-February rally of 100,000 people at a Taipei stadium, Hsieh painted Ma's position toward China as a sure way of undermining Taiwan's economy and squashing its democratic ideals and hopes for independence. If Ma has his way, "in the end we will give up our sovereignty," Hsieh blasted. "If this happens, we will not have the dignity of being our own masters." (TIME requested an interview with Hsieh but it wasn't granted...
...Darfur, and American detainment camps. Power was the founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School. Power’s slip also drew attention to other comments she made to the BBC, in which she said that Obama’s campaign trail promise to bring troops home from Iraq within a year was a “best-case scenario” to be revisited if he was elected. The Obama campaign continues to call the Iraq plan “a rock solid commitment.” Earlier this month, retired...
...Goolsbee had downplayed Obama's campaign trail rhetoric decrying NAFTA's effect on the American economy, saying that as President Obama would not seek to overturn or radically reshape the agreement, a deal that is viewed as a good thing by American's neighbors to the north. After first denying the meeting took place, the Obama campaign claimed that the written account mischaracterized Goolsbee's conversation and that there was no cynical difference between the candidate's campaign position on NAFTA and his true intentions should he become President...