Word: bananas
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...phone service and video-on-demand to BPL users right off the bat. "That's the triple play," says Vamsi Sistla, broadband analyst for ABI Research. "That's what every network that's sending data is striving for. And [consumers] who can get the apple, the orange and the banana from the same vendor will get a better deal...
...Italian, has been working ever since to prove that not only does that dress-for-dinner lifestyle still exist, but selling clothes to match it is profitable. During the 1990s, as part of the British retailer Marks & Spencer, Brooks Brothers embraced the business-casual look and moved toward the Banana Republic slice of the retail spectrum, even producing its own line of jeans. As CEO and chairman, Del Vecchio has yanked the company back to its higher-brow heritage by rolling out new cuts of suits, reinvigorating the made-to-order and tailor shops, overhauling women's wear and upgrading...
...still lives. It is lined with rust-mottled Proton sedans and boxy concrete houses, and wedged into the forested hills above the Malaysian port city of Johor Bahru, where the Anwar family has been prominent in politics since Malaysia's independence 50 years ago. Shaded by droopy banana trees, and crisscrossed by stray cats creeping through chain-link fences, the landscape lies somewhere between a sleepy kampong, or Malay village, and a soulless American suburb. "There is no culture around," Zakii says...
...that the Oct. 3 meeting when the BRA approved Harvard’s science project showed that the agency had lost touch with the needs of residents. “It wasn’t a hearing. It was like a kangaroo court. It was something out of a banana republic,” Glennon said. “It was this formality that they went through to satisfy the rules and regulations.” It is precisely those rules and regulations that will inhibit the ability of Tuesday’s winner to act. City politicians have...
...becoming another symbol of Latin America's gaping chasm between a hyperwealthy lite and the abject poor. Panama and its reformist President, Martn Torrijos, may have a good business plan for the future, but the nation's near 40% poverty rate is a legacy of decades of banana-republic rule and dismal social spending. Hilda declined to speak to TIME on the record because the case is still pending, but her granddaughter Madelaine Urrutia, who sits on the board of a children's charity, insists, "We are a family with a social conscience." Thousands of Panamanian kids hope...