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...Labour won two votes for every one that its traditional rival National was able to secure. Amid national affluence, and with such a large electoral buffer, Clark should be unassailable. But she's not. Far from it. Labour finds itself neck and neck in the polls in a two-horse race with a revitalized National, under the leadership of political novice Don Brash, a former governor of the country's Reserve Bank. Are people ungrateful, or has Labour reached its use-by date? It may simply be that New Zealand politics is becoming a more unpredictable game or, as Deputy...
...talking, Wal-Mart is trying to remake its image, in some measure with the aid of inner-city African Americans. The math is simple: Wal-Mart offers stores and jobs to poor black communities that are hemorrhaging both. Meanwhile, those communities extol the virtues of Wal-Mart, offering a buffer against the company's critics. Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott is well aware of what a business partner like Garner does for the company's profile. "I like the image," he says. "In one part of Chicago you have ... an African-American woman who demolished the existing building...
...wringing over the sale of Maytag--particularly when a Chinese firm put in a bid--came from nostalgia over the brand. The Maytag repairman may be one of the most recognized brands in America, but the company has to keep the name fresh. Though it has cast a younger, buffer repairman, Maytag has been selling the same idea--we're the old reliable--even as consumers' tastes shifted toward more sophisticated products. That left an opening for specialty lines from GE and Whirlpool and upstarts like LG and Samsung. Thanks to stylish marketing, those brands are synonymous with high...
Indeed, Berkeley says locating undergraduates along the river would be more palatable because there would be a buffer between the Houses and the Allston neighborhood...
...Spurs have Pistons in Crosshairs," the trailer for "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" and, under the Music Choice header, something called "Al Green - Everything's OK." Everything was not OK. It mostly made me seasick, the picture swirled in and out of resolution and the phone often had to re-buffer the data stream in the course of the playback. It felt as if the people who upload this stuff don't actually watch it themselves, or at least, don't watch it on their phones. If they did, they'd never let it fly. Much of this content costs extra...