All the same, there does seem to be, to use the modish phrase, a glass ceiling for women.

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But two modish economic ideas, which imply that high-tech industries create special antitrust worries, have also attracted the interest of antitrust people.

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In setting the scene Paul skewers the modish restaurant by adopting a tone that is slightly too sharp to be gentle mocking.

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In style, there is nothing modish or up to the minute about Davies, nothing to seem stale or dated in a decade or two.

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He begins and ends with Louis XIV's and Napoleon's shapely legs a light-hearted nod to the modish history of the body but his focus is really on politics and the state.

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The hipsters' fondness for all things twee and retro - baking cupcakes, riding fixed-wheel bikes, using Polaroid cameras instead of digital - meant Christmas jumpers could be re-cast as modish.

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But the study developed into Mr Pipes's best-known idea: that the Soviet Union was better understood as a successor to past Russian imperialism than through Kremlinology, sociology or other modish approaches.

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In later years, when he and his colleagues had pushed climate change, and in particular greenhouse warming, on to the agenda, people keen to ensure a lack of action made much of his about-face over cooling, preferring to accuse him of modish inconsistency than to see him as someone who had worked to improve his models, and as a result had changed his mind.

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