Earlier this summer LOFT, which is owned by Ann Taylor, posted photos on its Facebook page of a new pair of pants worn by a skinny model.

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Finally, a Marcello Mastroianni look-alike in narrow pants and thick glasses emerges from downstairs with a new cigar.

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While the clock speeds don't match those of Intel's fastest chips, the Apple executive claimed his new processors beat the pants off of a 600MHz Pentium III running most applications -- an assertion that Intel will likely refute.

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But then, thanks to a rebate program he instituted for their new line of snow pants, he rocketed up the corporate ladder.

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So who better to hold us to a new standard of health and help us squeeze into our pants than our very own mayor?

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Barneys New York is carrying a relatively small amount of pleated pants in its designer area, about nine brands, aimed at "a real fashion guy, " said Tom Kalenderian, general merchandise manager of men's.

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The 34-inch waist hung straight and level over my hips with no need of a belt, although my belt slid through the loops of the new pants perfectly.

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The new girl beat the pants off the Minotaur three times in a row.

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Sweet and BuildFast co-founder Patrick Freeburger, however, looked like the new kids on the block, dressed casually in blue oxford shirts and khaki pants amid a sea of business suits and cocktail dresses.

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People caught violating the laws get punished, even famous people, like former New York Giants football star Plaxico Burress, who walked into a nightclub with a loaded gun tucked into his track pants in 2008 and accidentally shot himself in the thigh.

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