"Clarks are not just for country strolls by the British gentry anymore, " says Seattle tax lawyer Wendy Goffe (a.k.a. the Forbes Footwear Fashionista), who handpicked the following shoes for baby boomers (and others) who are starved for less pain and more pizzazz below the ankle.

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Your smile, your pizzazz and whatever charm you have will come through more to the host and producer in-person.

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Small accent lamps, sometimes with LED bulbs, add pizzazz to bookshelves and fireplace mantels.

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Some of the newer hotels that have raced to open in time for the convention are serving up more variety and a bigger dollop of pizzazz than is typically associated with the famously understated Midwestern market.

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And so the idea is to add some of that pizzazz to, you know, some simulations that the Army uses already.

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Dell was late to adopt the souped-up low-cost chips of Advanced Micro Devices , missed out on mobile computing and failed to put up any new products or applications with pizzazz.

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Dell was late to adopt the souped-up low-cost chips of Advanced Micro Devices (nyse: AMD - news - people ), missed out on mobile computing and failed to put up any new products or applications with pizzazz.

FORBES: The Second Coming

Dell was late to adopt the souped-up, low-cost chips of Advanced Micro Devices (nyse: AMD - news - people ), missed out on mobile computing and failed to put up any new products or applications with real pizzazz.

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So last year Lipscomb added a little reality-TV pizzazz to a Vegas poker match, wiring the tournament with 17 cameras and flashing on-screen personal factoids about players.

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