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...Internet, retailers would pay for the halo effect of being on a big portal like AOL," says David Bolotsky, who headed Goldman Sachs' U.S. retail group before launching UncommonGoods, an online and catalog gift shop, in 1999. "When they realized they were losing their shirts, there was a backlash." In the next phase, retailers started insisting on strict revenue-sharing deals. These days the pendulum has swung back. Most deals between retailers and portals fall somewhere in the middle, so neither side shoulders all the risk...
Perhaps the small-brand upsurge reflects a backlash against the homogeny of the Gap-Starbucks culture. Or maybe big brands are the victim of their own excess, their flamboyantly advertised labels signifying not a sense of style so much as a slavishness to trends. Hip consumers seem to have caught a new scent and are turning to smaller boutiques like Scoop in New York City and Colette in Paris...
...Clark] is seen as part of the ‘old guard’ of Harvard Law School which carries some backlash,” said Meeta Anand, a first-year at HLS. Citing a move by Clark to cut funding for public interest advising, Anand said Clark was fundamentally out of touch with students...
...raid was very aggressive, a mosque is after all no different from a church or a synagogue," he says. The fact that the last few weeks' raids and arrests have all involved North Africans, many of them Algerians and many of them asylum seekers, could have a worrying backlash. Sekkoum warns there are up to 100 Algerian asylum seekers in Britain said by the community to have committed terrorist acts in Algeria. Already there are voices in Britain demanding a more rigorous system for removing failed asylum applicants. "We Algerians are killed in our own country...
...ourselves—if this incident had occurred between a white and a black man, it would have caused an explosion of outrage. Had Yao Ming been black or Hispanic, no one would have dared to broadcast such racial taunts over national radio for fear of widespread backlash. Why then does American society find it acceptable, and even humorous, to mock an individual of Chinese descent? Evidently, Americans hold a double standard with regard to political correctness. A standard that denies basic respect to Asians in America...