Word: berghe
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...gone backward since Mandela's presidency. The African National Congress (ANC) has been in power since 1994 and is as unlikely to be replaced via the ballot box as President Robert Mugabe's government is in Zimbabwe. South Africa's real saint is Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu. Julius Bergh, Nerang, Queensland...
...There is statistical and anecdotal evidence that ambient media do work. Hatfield's research shows that supermarket floor ads can increase a product's in-store sales an average of 15.5%. Van den Bergh Foods reports that gas-pump nozzle ads for its Peperami snack sticks boost in-store sales by 22.5%. "Pump nozzles are a good way of promoting Peperami as an on-the-move snack," says a Van den Bergh spokesman, adding that 80% of its customers are males 34 and younger. Ambient ads often "reach a specific audience when they're most receptive," notes Hayes...
...mayor, Orville Bergh, Daryl's father, came in and took no credit, saying, "They got all this organized while I was up in Milwaukee. Not bad for a little jerkwater town like this." Mayor for six years, he said he had been mayor for too long. "They complain about everything." He is paid $15 every time the town council meets. His Norwegian father was born in a sod shanty in 1883. His proudest bureaucratic achievement is a $6,000, 500-ft. concrete sidewalk that runs alongside Main Street, which is dirt. "That boy is mine too," said the mayor, pointing...
...table, David Bergh was explaining, "A 90 mile-an-hour fastball takes .44 seconds to reach home plate...
...just an old retired town," he went on, "but we do have some kids. I mean you got your Berghs at that big table back there in the cafe; their reproductive rate is quite something." Back in the restaurant, a no-nonsense 32-ft. by 56-ft. steel building, David Bergh was saying, "The only good Republican is a dead Republican...