Word: amy
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...bikers into a sausage and anchovie Agincourt. As Pizza Hut's champion, Heinecke slew all challengers, capturing 95% market share and forcing American chain Domino's Pizza out of Thailand. Now can Heinecke beat the brand he built? Areeya Boon-Long, associate director at the Bangkok office of AMI Business Consulting, says: "In terms of brand image, awareness and loyalty, Pizza Hut has it all.'' Pizza Hut has other strengths, too. Tricon has 33,000 stores in 104 countries. As the largest quick-serve restaurant corporation in the world, it "has enormously deep pockets and that is a tremendous advantage...
...talks were interrupted by the concluding days of Barak's campaign, but Erakat says his Israeli counterpart, Gilead Sher, who had teamed up with Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben Ami, agreed they could be successfully concluded by April 30 if Barak remained in office. Israeli sources confirm the talks took place and say that had Barak been re-elected, they might have been able to conclude a deal in two months. Assuming, they add, the Palestinians really wanted a deal...
...good at the polls, he's trying to get whatever deal he can. And he's taking a lot of heat for that. Two members of his own cabinet on Saturday upbraided him for the negotiations, saying doing this just before the election is unsavory. Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben Ami retorted that while they were negotiating, Barak's team wouldn't sign anything. There's concern that it's not cricket to make a new deal and then lose the election and hand a poisoned chalice to Sharon. And, of course, Barak's party may end up in a unity...
...ground, I think neither the Palestinian side nor the Israeli side is prepared for such a breakthrough. Today I was in Nablus, attending the funeral of three people who were shot dead literally at the same time as Arafat was meeting [Israeli foreign minister Shlomo] Ben Ami. At the funeral, I heard it plainly, clearly, that people were condemning the meeting between Arafat and Ben Ami. A friend of mine in Gaza today attended the 13th-anniversary rally of Hamas along with tens of thousands of Palestinians. The message there was to continue the armed struggle, and that the killings...
...have a presence online. Most small businesses use the Internet only for e-mail, and a mere fraction have discovered online auctions. Business is expected to boom. Small businesses will account for approximately $118 billion in e-commerce in 2002, up from roughly $25 billion in 1999, according to AMI-Partners, a New York City-based Internet research firm specializing in small businesses...