He wore suspenders that kept his trousers hiked high on his waist, and a midnight blue Italian suit jacket draped cape-like over a starched white shirt, which was tieless and buttoned up to a very prominent Adam's apple.

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The company bought businesses such as Hugo Boss, originally a German menswear firm, and signed deals with blue-chip Italian designers such as Gianfranco Ferre.

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Paget says Belu -- derived from the word blue and the Italian word for beautiful, "bella" -- takes a three-pronged approach to its clean water projects, by not only providing a clean water source for drinking but water for washing hands and education about the importance of hygiene.

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But unlike members of the Kennedy clan, Capuano who is of Irish-Italian lineage brings to the House a pragmatic, blue-collar progressivism, a byproduct of his long mayoral tenure in working-class Somerville.

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Located between the coastal cities of Ranchos Palos Verdes and Long Beach, the town is , among other things, the birthplace of influential 1980s punk rockers the Minutemen, one of America's most important working ports, and a demographically diverse blue-collar mix of Latino, Croatian and Italian immigrants.

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According to the French magazine Le Point, more than 250 Porches leave the Italian peninsula every week to be sold elsewhere at 30-40% below Blue Book values.

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Blue jeans may be an American invention, but 57-year-old Italian entrepreneur Renzo Rosso has built a global empire by turning jeans into high-end fashion.

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Japan appointed Italian coach Alberto Zaccheroni after Takeshi Okada stood down in July, having taken the "Blue Samurai" into the second round of football's biggest tournament before losing on penalties to Paraguay.

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