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HIID “was a behemoth and had a very strong consulting focus,” Rogoff said in an interview Thursday...
Less than a decade ago, Maybelline was a mass-market cosmetics brand with an image problem. But in 1996, it was taken over by French personal-grooming behemoth L'Oreal, headed by Lindsay Owen-Jones. As it has done with so many of its 17 beauty brands--like the zany personal-care line Garnier or the ethnic hair-care concern SoftSheen/Carson--L'Oreal gave Maybelline a marketing face-lift and sent it out to conquer the world. "I had what was perhaps an unrealistic ambition," Owen-Jones, 58, told TIME: "to put a Maybelline lipstick in the hand of every woman...
...reference to Cheney and his connection with the oil-and-gas behemoth Halliburton, you quoted a presidential adviser who said, "People aren't going to care about Halliburton ... They're going to care about who can protect them." Such arrogance! Washington insiders seem to think that Americans are indifferent to the obscene amounts of money that companies like Halliburton are making in Iraq with no-bid U.S. government contracts. Of course we are concerned about terrorism, but that doesn't mean we're not frustrated by seeing the Halliburtons of the country make a profit from American taxpayers...
...reference to Cheney and his connection with the oil-and-gas behemoth Halliburton, you quoted a presidential adviser who said, "People aren't going to care about Halliburton ... They're going to care about who can protect them." Such arrogance! Washington insiders seem to think that Americans are indifferent to the obscene amounts of money that companies like Halliburton are making in Iraq with no-bid contracts. Of course we are concerned about terrorism, but that doesn't mean we're not frustrated by seeing the Halliburtons of the country make a profit from American taxpayers. Woe to those politicians...
...entered the Fair Trade market four years ago after protesters scheduled rallies against its "sweatshop coffee." Today activist groups such as the Global Exchange in San Francisco are demanding that it hike Fair Trade purchases from about 1% to at least 5% of its coffee. The $4 billion Seattle behemoth offers only one Fair Trade variety (at $11.45 lb.) out of 20-plus types of whole beans and serves Fair Trade brew in its 3,900 U.S. shops only one day a month. Says Anthony Sprauve, vice president for worldwide public affairs: "The demand is not there...