Word: bells
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...this good or bad news for the traders? They weren't sure. After the morning bell the Dow quickly dropped 123 points, with the Nasdaq falling 56, but both indexes quickly recovered to just slightly down by late morning...
Advertisers have already put the idea into practice. This March, the retired space station Mir was set to crash into the Pacific Ocean near the Australian coast. Taco Bell floated a 100-square-meter target near the crash site, and guaranteed, if the station hit the target, a free taco for all 280 millions Americans...
...Taco Bell purchased insurance to pay for the tacos in case Mir hit the target. The firm took the odds, Mir missed, and the stunt, with Taco Bell's name attached, become the subject of fluff news and chit-chat around the world...
...Novak, the Taco Bell stunt is just the beginning. Rather than paste brand names on random spectacles, his plan is to script the spectacles themselves...
...foodie for the American-Statesman in Austin, Texas, reviewing a Truluck's steak-and-seafood house last summer. "The noise is so overwhelming that it ruined the dining experience." Michael Bauer, food editor for the San Francisco Chronicle, carries a sound meter to rate restaurants on a four-bell scale. "New places in San Francisco often measure 75 to 80 decibels on my meter," he says. (Normal conversation is around 60.) "To carry on a conversation at that level, you have to raise your voice." Or scream...