Word: trimming
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...including a multihued pinstripe button-down shirt with a sheer black chiffon back?expects to see a big payoff, especially in China. "Chinese like colors and more fancy details," explains the label's marketing director, Priscilla Chow, who emphasizes her point by rubbing her fingers against the rough lacy trim of one of its soft polyester dresses. "They are willing to pay more for their clothes now?but they want their money's worth." Given the opulent handiwork behind the latest collections, it looks like they, and other Asian consumers, are going...
...including a multihued pinstripe button-down shirt with a sheer black chiffon back - expects to see a big payoff, especially in China. "Chinese like colors and more fancy details," explains the label's marketing director, Priscilla Chow, who emphasizes her point by rubbing her fingers against the rough lacy trim of one of its soft polyester dresses. "They are willing to pay more for their clothes now - but they want their money's worth." Given the painstaking handiwork behind the latest collections, it looks as if they're going...
...emphatic dunk by Sacred Heart forward Kibwe Trim put the finishing touches on an 11-0 run that gave the Pioneers an 81-56 lead with five minutes to play and put Harvard away for good...
...Finance Minister Singh points out that India's Parliament passed a new fiscal-responsibility act that directs the government to trim its expenditure each year so that by 2008 it will spend no more than it receives in revenues. "We're moving in the right direction," he says. Singh is also moving to fix the country's tax system, which suffers from loopholes and evasion. This year, the government plans to introduce a single, uniform value-added tax to replace India's jumble of state and local sales taxes; economists expect the new tax regime will widen the government...
...child, I never thought much about my weight. I wasn't served sugary cereals, and I played outside with my friends, as my mother instructed me, till the streetlights came on. Like most children back in the '80s, when only 5% of U.S. kids were overweight, we were trim, maybe even skinny. But the percentage of overweight or obese children has tripled since then, along with all manner of related health risks, from diabetes to heart disease. And now our quick-fix society has come up with a pill for the problem: Xenical, the first obesity drug approved...