Word: bandwagoners
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...Some luxury brands jumped on the e-commerce bandwagon during the dotcom boom in the late 1990s, only to bust with the bubble in the early part of the current decade. So they're reluctant to try again. There's also an older wariness dating back to the 1980s, when too many designer brands went on licensing sprees that cheapened their pedigree. "Since then, the mantra has all been about control of brand. And to some, the net looks like the Wild West," explains Guy Salter, deputy chairman of Walpole, the British luxury brands trade association that collaborated...
...groups and expressed some willingness to collaborate with NGOs. Roberto Ador, executive director of the Family Planning Organization of the Philippines, says the suit comes at an opportune time. He sees it as part of a nascent nationwide push for reproductive rights. "We're hoping this will create a bandwagon effect," he says, "We think this could be noticed by executives at the highest levels of government and church." For Manila's poorest families, that change can't come soon enough...
...joined him for the special night. His aides, briefing the press, took care not to gloat about their victory over Hillary Clinton - which was finally made official by a combination of freshly elected delegates in Montana and South Dakota and a flurry of unelected superdelegates who rushed onto his bandwagon. Instead, they called Clinton "formidable," and noted that her efforts made Obama a stronger candidate...
...Obama has a roughly 176-delegate lead and is less than 60 delegates short of clinching the nomination, with most of the final 31 pledged delegates set to be divvied up by Tuesday night in Montana and South Dakota. A plug of superdelegates is expected to jump on his bandwagon shortly after those primaries, if not before. Then, both sides expect, he'd have the 2,118 delegates needed to put the nomination in is pocket...
...plus such 10-best titles as The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Persepolis the Israeli charmer The Band's Visit and the out-of-nowhere Romanian sensation 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days. The Cannes imprimatur helped critics alert moviegoers to these fine films, and a large or little bandwagon got rolling. Mission accomplished...