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...beauty products. In its first global launch ever, Dove hopes to attract the 40 million or so baby-boomer women in the wrinkle-war zone with a provocative twist: instead of demonizing wrinkles with "antiaging" products, Dove celebrates them and calls its new line Pro Age. For the Anglo-Dutch consumer giant Unilever, Dove's $52 billion parent company, the stakes are high: total sales in 2006 grew just 4%. Indeed, since 2004, Unilever's sales growth has been in the single digits, while key competitor Procter & Gamble, which owns rival beauty powerhouse Olay, is growing twice as fast...
...vicious circle of job cuts, sinking morale and political infighting," he says. As for Airbus as a model for industrial cooperation, James Foreman-Peck, a professor at Cardiff Business School who specializes in European industrial policy, says it remains valid. But, he adds, "these days, Airbus just confirms Anglo-Saxon prejudices that governments waste large amounts of taxpayers' money even when they have a good idea...
...considered studying both biological chemistry and economics. But he decided to concentrate in English and American language and literature after attending a lecture by Cogan University Professor Stephen Greenblatt in English 10a, “Major British Writers,” an introductory class in British literature from the Anglo-Saxon era to John Milton. “I think he was discussing ‘The Canterbury Tales,’ and reading with him as the teacher changed the whole thing. I realized I want to do this, I want to read about this tradition. And reading...
...Toward the northern edge of Bennelong, the sprawling Macquarie Centre is a temple to the boom in consumer spending that has re-kitted Australia in the Plasma Age; in the food court, Anglo-Australians eat noodles and Indochinese go for burgers, fried chicken and donuts. It's retail Disneyland, free of menace, with a throng of brisk walkers. Shoppers here have money but not a lot of time. Howard is a security blanket for the striving class. People feel that he is not only sympathetic to their ends, he is prepared to support the means as well. Life for swing...
...along Iraqi river valleys in U.S. military choppers - usually clutching my stomach to avoid losing my MRE - I know there are no helicopter pilots better than those trained by the U.S. military. Nor are there any better flying machines (the White House's recent ordering of a fleet of Anglo-Italian helicopters for the President's use notwithstanding...