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"People need to stop and think... driving a tanker, no matter what the product, is quite a pressurised job."

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Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida feeding a deer in Canada in 1960. LIFE called her "the most fetching argument ever advanced for liberal immigration policies. (She had recently moved to Canada) (Peter Stackpole—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) ‪#‎LIFElegends‬
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Prada's revenues have fallen for the first time since the financial crisis, tumbling 5% in what was the firm's fastest growing market, Asia. Civil unrest in Hong Kong; Russia's imploding economy; and the timing of Chinese New Year have all been offered up as reasons for the firm's woes. But some analysts are worrying that the firm has been taking its eyes off profitability http://econ.st/1D7TQOT

Handbagged

AFTER several years of glittering profits, the prospects for Prada, an Italian maker of luxury goods, are starting to look less fetching. On February 22nd the firm...

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Sergeant recalls how he waited outside the British embassy in Paris in 1990 reckoning she was not going to give an interview to the BBC, as she had just heard that Michael Heseltine had the support of 152 Conservatives in the first round of the leadership battle.
Out of the blue she emerged unknown to Sergeant who was facing his camera crew to the front of the building.
The London crew were shouting "she's behind you" and as she swept past Sergeant her press secretary, Bernard Ingham, could be seen elbowing him out of the way. That became known as the handbagging moment.



Birkin is also auctioning her own personal "Birkin" handbag to raise funds for the quake victims. The "Birkin" bag was designed especially for her in 1984 by the French fashion house Hermes. The eBay auction sponsored by music label EMI includes other items donated by rock stars.
At last check, the bids for Birkin's "preowned" handbag had reached about 4,700 pounds ($7,666 or 655,175 yen). The auction runs until April 15.

Definition of fetching i

n English:

adjective

Attractive:a fetching little garment of pink satin

fetchingly

1

Pronunciation: /ˈfɛtʃɪŋli/

adverb

EXAMPLE SENTENCES

• And so they got on with it, taking the standard British free-fall nuclear bomb of the time, the fetchingly named Blue Danube, and designing a pressurised, water-tight casing for the land-mine version.
• Bowker is more scholarly and far better on Orwell's literary influences; Taylor, eager to be fetchingly original, breaks up his chronological account with mini-essays on aspects of Orwell's career and personality.
• Coldplay's music is reassuringly familiar and dependably thoughtful to everyone except, it seems, Chris Martin, who has fetchingly wrapped up their third album in his insecurities.

Definition of handbag

noun

• 1British a small bag used by a woman to carry everyday personal items.

• 2 (handbags) humorous a confrontation that does not lead to serious fighting, especially among soccer players.
  

  [from the idea of women fighting with their handbags]

verb (handbags, handbagging, handbagged)

[with object] informal, humorous (of a woman) verbally attack or crush (a person or idea) ruthlessly and forcefully:I saw her last week and got handbagged for 15 minutes

[ 1980s: coined by Julian Critchley, Conservative MP, with reference to Margaret Thatcher's ministerial style in cabinet meetings]