Word: flagships
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Department stores are also paying more attention to tiny brands. For fall, Saks is planning to create a special corner in its flagship store devoted to one-of-a-kind designer items--a kind of launchpad, perhaps, for the next Habitual...
DIED. GEORGE WATERS, 87, executive who turned the American Express card into the company's flagship product; of heart problems; in Fair Haven, N.J. Until 1961, when Waters was hired, credit cards were used mostly by restaurants, Visa and MasterCard did not exist, and the American Express card lagged behind one offered by the Diners Club. One of his first moves was to persuade American Airlines to accept the American Express card; other airlines and businesses followed quickly, and the card soon became a global brand...
...DIED. GEORGE WATERS, 87, executive who turned the American Express card into the company's flagship product; in Fair Haven, New Jersey. Until 1961, when Waters was hired, charge cards were used mostly by restaurants, Visa and MasterCard did not exist, and the American Express card lagged behind one offered by Diners Club. One of his first moves was to persuade American Airlines to accept the American Express card; other airlines and businesses followed quickly...
...risk. As for Bali, the financial effects of the bombs are likely to be catastrophic. Employment on the island may fall more than 20% next year, according to a model developed by Thea Sinclair and Guntur Sugiyarto at the University of Nottingham in Britain. And since Bali was a flagship destination not just for Indonesia--more than half the visitors to the country in 2001 spent time on the island--but for all of Southeast Asia, the ripple effect from the bombings may be felt throughout the region...
...than a little anxious at the extent to which the Bush Administration has been yoked to a UN inspection timetable that could, if Saddam avoids overt confrontation, drag matters on into next February, and even then not produce a definitive case for a UN-sanctioned war. The neo-conservative flagship Weekly Standard warns that absent any self-destructive instinct on Saddam's part, even 100 days from now the most likely outcome of the renewed inspection program will be sufficiently ambiguous to simply make a case for giving the inspectors even more time, further dissipating Washington's regime-change momentum...