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...ballgowns that made up the finale of the show were unusual for Armani and the flashes of fuchsia and lime green throughout were new for the designer best known as the king of beige, but the razor-sharp tailoring on tiny double-breasted jackets with pagoda-square shoulders was classic Armani. If he came into the French couture arena several seasons ago with a bit off timidity, now he's strutting his stuff - which is to say extremely precise tailoring. One couldn't help but think that the tiny proportions and sharp shape of the jackets were inspired...
...More than anything, the startling number testifies to the buoyancy of equity markets in China - which many analysts believe are classic, overvalued bubbles, destined at some point to crash. Indeed, the Shanghai market tumbled more than five per cent on July 5, before recovering on Friday. But $52 billion, whatever the environment, is serious money - without question a milestone in China's extraordinary economic transformation. Consider that the most money ever raised for IPOS in the United States in a single year was $63.1 billion. That was in 1999 - at the peak of the technology bubble...
...struck deals with its heavily unionized workforce that enable it to run its factories more or less as demand dictates. Its newest plant in Leipzig, where the 3-series and new 1-series hatchback cars are built, runs anywhere from 60 to 140 hours per week. Instead of classic two- or three-shift rosters, the company juggles some 300 working-time permutations to determine optimal use of its teams of workers, some of whom are contract "permatemps" more common...
...recognize the Reiss touch from both The Simpsons and The Critic: constant sidesteps into movie and TV burlesques, and a very high ratio of good humor to bad. But if Queer Duck has a godfather or bachelor uncle, it would have to be the classic old Rocky and Bullwinkle show (or, as it's called in a gay TV-porn collection Queer Duck owns, Rockhard & Bullsprinkle). And since that was the smartest pre-Simpsons cartoon series, I mean this as high praise indeed. For all its bitchiness, the movie manages to be frisky and genial. One last odd fact: Reiss...
...held in New York, that investment will start to pay the dividends. And that's why, back in Shanghai late last month, the search for the next star from China went on. At the Shanghai University of Sports, Adidas again held its annual camp. The University is a classic product of the Communist system, its campus full of students identified by the state who are there because of their skill and potential in a variety of sports, from gymnastics to Taekwando. But what was taking place on the fourth floor of a steaming hot gym on campus last month...