Word: rosier
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...Japanese, "They are further out. It's easier to get in touch with a Dutch designer or a British designer or even a New York designer when you are in Paris." Arnault did include Kenzo Takada in his group until Takada's retirement last year - when Frenchman Gilles Rosier took the helm of the Kenzo line...
Lots of family companies struggle just to succeed. The struggle places tons of pressure on the family unit, within which there's always plenty of emotional inventory anyway. But growth is a huge problem too, and managing it presents family firms with rosier but no less complex issues. "My brother-in-law and I were giving each other the finger. Nobody was showing up for Easter dinner," recounts Park Kerr, chairman and founder of the El Paso Chile Co., a $10 million-a-year specialty-food company that sells salsas and snacks to the likes of Williams Sonoma and Neiman...
...high premiums. The bonds (the 10-year coupon pays 7.75%) include step-up coupons that pay more if credit ratings drop. Downgrades have outnumbered upgrades for 11 quarters, and the industry's default probability more than doubled last year, to more than 4.85%. While the forecast is a bit rosier for wireless and data services, Moody's managing director, Bob Konefal, says, "The old Aa rates are, for the most part, history...
...spent years?and lost billions?dishing out money to obsolete state-owned enterprises and deadbeat companies, many of which are owned by bankers' and officials' friends and relatives. About one out of every four Chinese bank loans are not paid back, according to official figures generally thought to be rosier than reality. Making reform and recapitalization of domestic banks all the more urgent is the country's entry into the World Trade Organization, which means cash-strapped lenders will, within five years, face competition from foreign financial institutions for the first time...
...last meeting between the Razorbacks and Crimson came at much rosier times, following the Crimson's famed upset of top seed Stanford in the 1998 NCAA Tournament. This Harvard team merely looked to avoid its seventh straight loss in front of a crowd of 2,274 against Arkansas...