1.   Although designers say labor is still less expensive abroad, making their products locally gives them the flexibility and quickness they need to respond to the market.

2.   Although he did not give a reason, the designer said he had been battling drugs and depression for years.

3.   Bad hardwood floors are better than bad carpeting, designers say.

4.   Auto designers say that affluent buyers from one country increasingly have more in common with affluent buyers from other countries than with their own countrymen.

5.   Both designers said they were drawn to the energy of New York, Kouyate adding that he would show his collection here again next season.

6.   A Generation Y furniture designer said he was impressed by Coupland.

7.   A software designer says he has a solution, a program that is designed to detect when a cat is walking on the keyboard.

8.   Above the table hangs another Walz design, an acid-etched light fixture, which the designer said resembles a trough.

9.   Absolutely not, the designer says.

10.   But designers say the newest generation of the plants are much cleaner.