Word: boycotts
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...reducing the problem." It has already published a quarter of a million copies of a World Citizens Guide underwritten by Pepsi and UPS for U.S. students overseas. "It's not good news for American businesses that people don't like America," Miller says. While there's no massive boycott, "the question is, what is the time lag between attitudinal shifts and behavior...
...poll shows that credit-card company Visa is barely identified as American. Even among those consumers who said they were inclined to boycott U.S. brands, only a few included Visa on the list. (American Express, by contrast, was strongly identified as being American.) Still, even companies that believe and practice a localized strategy aren't immune to political backlash. McDonald's, for example, adapts its menus to local taste; its restaurants serve Kiwi burgers in New Zealand and wine in France. But that hasn't prevented the fast-food chain from being a favorite target of French protesters. And General...
...government has been acting president Ghazi al-Yawer, whose party won only 6 seats. Shiite leaders have held talks with Yawer's group, but also with representatives of the Association of Muslim Scholars and the Iraqi Islamic Party, Sunni groups that boycotted the election. The combination of the boycott call and intimidation by the insurgents proved remarkably successful in keeping Sunnis away from the polls: In Anbar province, which includes Fallujah and Ramadi, only 2 percent of voters went to the polls, while the turnout in Nineveh, which includes the northern city of Mosul and a significant Kurdish population...
...Campaign Blues ZIMBABWE The main opposition party, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), announced it had decided "with a heavy heart" to participate in March 31 parliamentary elections, although it maintained that restrictions on the media and security laws would prevent a fair campaign. The MDC vowed last year to boycott the poll, because, it said, it would not be able to compete on a level playing field with President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF party. Lost in a Storm AFGHANISTAN Officials said all 104 people on board an Afghan airliner that crashed in bad weather near Kabul were feared...
...that the coalition of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi was reeling in the UIA's lead, drawing support not only from a middle class secular constituency but also from Shiites wary of giving clerics political authority. Allawi may have been helped by what appears to have been a de facto boycott by supporters of the radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, on whose votes the UIA may have been counting. Indeed, if the 57 percent turnout figure is accurate, then the high Kurdish turnout and the fact that there was a substantial if small vote among Sunnis would suggest that a significant...