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...company cultivates a shamelessly folksy image, urging readers of its magazine ads to call a "friendly southern Wisconsin voice." Lands' End operators, many of whom are housewives or students from the surrounding farm country, are famous for their willingness to chat, even about the weather. "We're trying to build a relationship with a customer, not consummate a sale," says President Richard Anderson...
...Memories plant, which may cost as much as $1 billion to build, will not be ready for at least a year and a half. "They're going to have to hurry up if they don't want to fall too far behind," says Sam Navarro, who follows the industry for the investment firm Ladenburg, Thalmann. Despite the time squeeze, some experts believe U.S. Memories could capture 30% to 40% of the U.S. chip market...
...travelers and lure future customers into the fold. "If we hook them now, we've got them later in life," says Hyatt Hotels president Darryl Hartley-Leonard. "This is going to become the way of life in the travel business -- offer a specialty product line for children, and you build brand loyalty...
Like St. Peter's, which the Protestants of 16th century Europe scorned as a scandalous extravagance, Our Lady of Peace is being maligned as an unseemly expense in a country with an annual per capita income of $650. Demands a devout Ivory Coaster: "Why build a church for God while there are so many unemployed and near starving?" The regime counters that the church was paid for entirely by private funds provided by Houphouet-Boigny and his sister and was built on land owned by the President...
Rising higher than St. Peter's in Rome and costing as much as $200 million to build, the basilica of Our Lady of Peace is Ivory Coast President Houphouet- Boigny's gift to all Africa's Christians and to the Vatican. But in his impoverished homeland, critics charge him with unseemly extravagance, and Rome seems cool to the gesture...