Word: transformation
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...from its couture, ready-to-wear and licensing businesses--with a loss of $13 million. Those in the designer's inner circle say Lacroix is bitter about the way LVMH'S chairman, Bernard Arnault, handled the sale, although Arnault shows little regret. "For 17 years we have worked to transform the company, and we have not been successful," he says. "It's time to focus on our core businesses and those brands like [Louis] Vuitton that have the most potential...
...turns out he meant it. As Bush takes the oath of office and begins his second term this week, he is preparing to bet his presidential legacy on the very issue that Republicans have been doing their best to avoid for decades. Transforming Social Security is Bush's biggest domestic political gamble--audacious even for a President who prides himself on audaciousness--and one that could reshape far more than a single government program. Those who believe in it most deeply say it could redefine politics itself, putting Republican principles in a position to dominate for the next half-century...
...Ukraine's presidential battle, Yushchenko has been buoyed by such shrewd use of street power - it has helped him emerge as a tough, decisive leader and a symbol of change. But now he has to play a subtler game if he is to make good on his promise to transform Ukraine from an outpost of Vladimir Putin's empire into a vibrant, prosperous part of Europe - a bridge between Russia and the West. He must establish a modus vivendi with a humiliated and angry Russian President and heal the divisions inside his own country, where the Russian speakers...
...search continues for other cognitive skills that might be linked to sleep. In January, Jan Born and his colleagues at the University of Lübeck in Germany published a clever study that shows why sleeping on a problem often brings such good results. They asked 106 test subjects to transform a string of numbers into a different string of numbers, using a simple but tedious mathematical equation. Unbeknownst to the study volunteers, there was a hidden trick to the calculations that could cut their response time dramatically. A good night's sleep between practice sessions more than doubled--from...
...first solo album from Max Heinegg, former vocalist of the Boston-based hard rock band The High Ceilings, comes to fans this month as a pleasantly mellow surprise. The release is a welcome departure from the old-yet-successful Heinegg rock style, as the artist seeks to transform himself into a singer-songwriter with this emotion-rich set of tunes. But the soulful frontman doesn’t entirely leave his rock roots behind, as most of these songs are thickly coated in layers of electric guitars and instrumental ornamentation...