Word: cleverisms
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...cost of labor in Germany. Her Bavarian ally Edmund Stoiber, who lost to Schröder in the 2002 election, is not helping matters. He lashed out at eastern German voters, who could tip the election. Stoiber regretted that "not all parts of the German population are as clever as Bavarians" and said he cannot accept "that the east determines who becomes Chancellor." Merkel was forced to reprimand Stoiber publicly. Schröder may be laughing at the cdu's blunders now, but Merkel may yet have the last laugh...
...Christian brand doesn't hurt. Skow keeps albums full of letters from customers, evidence of the powerful loyalty that a Christian affiliation inspires. While many Christian entrepreneurs want to do good for their fellow Christians, advertising faith is also a clever branding strategy, says James Twitchell, author of Branded Nation: The Marketing of Megachurch, College Inc., and Museumworld. "It's all part of a narrative that you buy or sell," he says. "How else do you separate interchangeable products--and what is a more powerful brand than faith...
...entire nuclear arsenal.) Leaving aside North Korea's claims that it possesses the Bomb, there are already seven declared nuclear powers--the U.S., Russia, Britain, France, China, India and Pakistan--with Israel an undeclared member of the club. But there are plenty of other nations rich and clever enough to build a bomb if they really wanted...
...brain, big heart. He was the kind of boy whose eighth-grade math teacher kept his birthday in her birthday book all these years, alone among her generations of students. "I like to think that was an omen for wonderful things to come," says Dorothea Liddell. He was way clever, she recalls, so much so that if he didn't get a concept she knew she had to teach it again, but "he never flaunted his intelligence over the other kids." Classmate Betsy Starr Swan remembers the science fair in which her team's water-purification exhibit lost...
...fact, the particular lyrics of almost every R. Kelly song can be pared down to a clever metaphor about having good sex. Very good...