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Then there's multifunctionality, the watchword of '00s design. Rashid didn't invent it, but he has pushed it. "Every new object should replace three," he says. His packaging for an Issey Miyake perfume was a corrugated polypropylene envelope that could double as a toiletries purse; his Bozart children's chair is also a toy box; and his Q Chaise converts from a table to a chair-and-footrest and then to a daybed...
...rapid enlargement of membership; he is already demanding a bigger Italian say on European farm policy. Berlusconi's promises to cut taxes, raise pensions and fund big public works projects seem at odds with the fiscal rigor required of euro-zone countries. Despite the potential for friction, the watchword within the E.U. is wait and see. "The trouble is we just don't know what Berlusconi thinks of Europe," says a French diplomat. "Europe has been a non-debate in Italy for the past 20 years...
Death before dishonor, it was once said. Today, though, the watchword for our military and its civilian chiefs seems to be dishonor before death. The spy plane fracas is a small matter, really, but there is still a word for what the Bush administration did to get our men and women home from Hainan. It is a word from an earlier time, when a fascist state wanted not Taiwan and the South China Sea, but Danzig and Vienna, the Rhineland and Prague...
With all the silverware and nervous hands, Smith repeated the watchword throughout the night, "Manners matter but safety first...
Indeed. Accountability is the watchword at a company that two years ago nearly failed for lack of it. And while this week's auto-show debut may offer an uplifting break in an otherwise grindingly difficult quest, Ghosn doesn't have time to stop and savor success. "If you're coming from hell," he says, "then purgatory doesn't look too bad." If the Z takes off, then at least maybe Ghosn can start thinking about heaven...