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...fashion world went into shock. Why not a top French designer like Jean-Paul Gaultier to assume the Givenchy mantle? Or if it had to be a foreigner, why not Vivienne Westwood, a more experienced Brit, who has shown in Paris for years and even troubled to study Dior's own output in detail? But Bernard Arnault, whose LVMH owns both Dior and Givenchy, is betting his money that the route to a younger market--the new, galvanizing image that has evaded the old couture houses in recent years--lies across the Channel. For if Galliano is famous...
...glamour. Maybe the humbling demands of a beginner's job in fashion are one reason why so many young comers tend to show off. For instance, says Wendy Dagworthy, herself a designer and director of the undergraduate school: "McQueen was determined, and he was an excellent cutter. He loved shock tactics. Many of the students here do. They're trying to get noticed, but we tell them, 'Never design only for the catwalk...
...suggesting generational genocide. I am sure that many of my peers will make solid contributions to our struggling society once they return from the front lines. However, I do insist that we all need to experience a little shell shock before we start driving in car pools. I do not exempt myself from this little scheme and you may be wondering why I would wish to enter into harm's way. The answer is simple. Our generation is pathetic...
...even IBM could withstand the seismic shifts that rocked the industry in the early 1990s. As personal computers increased in power, many customers began moving their data-processing chores to smaller, desktop systems. The shock waves bent many "big iron" manufacturers out of shape, including Prime Computer and Control Data Corp., which stopped making mainframes after heavy losses. Many companies like Wang Laboratories and Unisys have largely switched from hardware to software. The biggest fallen giant is Digital Equipment Corp., which last week reported a larger than expected quarterly loss of $66 million. Once the No. 2 computer maker after...
From the Great Depression to the oil-price shock of 1979, Michigan more often than not voted Democrat. Though the loss of some 160,000 auto-production jobs in the early '80s gave the G.O.P. an opening--it picked up two congressional seats in 1994--Clinton beat Bush in 1992, and the Democrats are favored to hold their congressional-delegation majority this year...