He sent shivers along Paris catwalks by appointing obscure and, even worse, foreign designers to French fashion labels, such as Britain's John Galliano at Dior and America's Marc Jacobs at Louis Vuitton.

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There's a question of whether Obama will empower Kerry to fashion areas of foreign policy on his behalf.

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First Chevron moved, successfully, to get the case tossed out of federal court in New York and back to Ecuador when the fashion was to deny foreign claimants their day in U.S. court.

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The fashion then was for collection and growing foreign species so the Spanish invaders going native was not seen as a problem.

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Its only concession to the metropolitan bias in the fashion industry is to rent a showroom in London for a few weeks a year to meet foreign buyers.

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We're convinced, for our own self-interest, that the way we use energy, changing it to a more efficient fashion, is essential to our national security, because it helps to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, and helps us deal with some of the dangers posed by climate change.

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