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...South Carolina, in front of an aircraft carrier. The switch puts more emphasis on his military background and less on his Massachusetts roots, which are both political baggage and a reminder of how directly he is competing with Dean. And the aircraft-carrier backdrop draws a more direct contrast with a different presidential candidate: George W. Bush. You can count on hearing Kerry's favorite applause line of late: "I learned something about aircraft carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin--I learned about them for real...
...forward a planned €15.5 billion tax cut from 2005 to January 2004; economists expect it will create a "wealth effect" that many assume will stimulate the economy. RWI is forecasting 1.8% economic growth in 2004, with about a third of that increase due to the tax cut. In contrast, this year's gdp is expected to decline by 0.2%. Although he has often teetered, Schröder seems determined to force the unemployed to actively seek jobs. Beginning next year, those who refuse a job, no matter how menial or poorly paid, will have their benefits...
...goal of Palestinian nationalism, by contrast, has traditionally been the elimination of the State of Israel. As the national movement representing the displaced Arab population of pre-1948 Palestine, the founding Charter of the PLO speaks of British mandate Palestine as an "indivisible unit" which must be restored to its original owners, dismissing Jewish and Zionist claims on the land and allowing only that those Jews who lived in Palestine "before the Zionist invasion" would be allowed to remain. Although that document was later modified (in a meeting hastily convened under pressure from the Clinton White House) in keeping with...
...time getting companies to put them under contract. "Calvin Klein helped launch my career by putting me in ads," says Soto, "but he never put me under contract." She had similar experiences with cosmetics companies: they were happy to hire her on a job-to-job basis but, in contrast to the rewards given her white colleagues, never signed her to a contract. Companies are more likely to link their products to known personalities, like Revlon with Halle Berry and Lucy Liu or L'Oreal with Beyonce Knowles...
...merchandise was slightly tweaked (some suppliers had to start making long pants and outerwear for East Coast customers), the concept took off. In 1993, with 60 stores, the company went public on the NASDAQ market. Today Pac-Sun plans to have 1,000 stores by 2007. (Gap, by contrast, has almost 3,000 stores worldwide...