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...Gilding and her crew spent 12 to 15 hours daily with first-time and experienced mothers. They found evidence that Huggies needed to change its ad pitch, which had long portrayed a "happy baby" headed toward a fabulous career--a diaper-clad banker, for example. "But in the late '90s there was a shift," says Gilding. "A happy baby was one that was learning about himself rather than a proposition for the future. Mothers were less interested in a 'mini-me.'" Gilding's film showed mothers enthralled as Baby discovered her toes or a new stuffed animal. The research persuaded...
...which she discovered often failed. The key problem, she found, was that even the best foster families felt isolated. Without constant, accessible support, they found the task overwhelming. Eheart also fondly recalled having older neighbors who were devoted to her family when her children were young. In the early '90s, when some politicians were promoting a return to orphanages and group homes, Eheart says, "It sent me over the edge. It became urgent to come up with a better way to do this...
...last few years have been "a particular challenge for monetary policy," which is "a difficult activity." The capital-investment bubble of the late 90s was "utterly unsustainable." Rebound predictions, "like all economic forecasts, do not have an enviable record." And yet Greenspan's big picture is still rosy - the recent dropoff in productivity gains and the technological investments that fuel them are "only a pause? At some point, inventory liquidation will come to an end, and its termination will spur production and incomes." And finally, "It is notable how well the U.S. economy has withstood the many negative forces weighing...
...zero or below. (O'Neill insists we're still in positive territory.) It won't get much help from businesses - Wall Street is flat, and will be for months at least, because most businesses are still recovering from those heady cash-burning days of the late '90s and are cutting costs as fast as they can. They're still selling off old inventories, which means they're cutting production (and workers, most companies' biggest expense) as fast and as deep as they...
...Thailand, insects used to be popular only in the poor north and northeast provinces. But as farmers and laborers migrated to the cities during the economic boom of the late '80s and early '90s, they brought their yearning for six- and eight-legged creatures with them. Bangkok natives were reintroduced to the wonders of savory creepy-crawlies and liked what they tasted. As soon as Kiam Poopaduang parks his pushcart full of insects outside the city's Nana red-light district each night?its sign reads "Amazing Thai Food"?motorcycle taxi drivers and bar girls start to swarm. Four years...