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...sales. Sure, it's a huge market for telecom equipment, but that's not all. Even after the recent downturn, the U.S. stock market remains a deep pool of capital. Alcatel has already tried raising its U.S. profile this year with an ad campaign featuring, to the disdain of civil rights groups, footage from Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech. The ads don't say anything about Alcatel's products - in fact, they are bewilderingly opaque - but given that those products are things like asynchronous transfer-mode data switches, it seems a safe bet that...
...seen Jeffords' change coming. He could have looked mighty close to home: in his own family. His grandfather Senator Prescott Bush was a moderate and cranky New England Republican not unlike Jim Jeffords. Even Bush's father, with his early support for Head Start and abortion rights and his disdain for supply-side economics, was once in the maverick Jim Jeffords mold...
...cannot overcome their sibling rivalry, which is made evident by the WWF-style wrestling match they engage in after arguing about how much money to spend on the funeral. All the while, Mama Slocumb looks on her family’s behavior with an air of mixed disdain and amusement...
...whiteness: love of Joni Mitchell. A fondness for the Midwest. A taste for soy milk, vanilla flavored. Tendency to be underdressed at any event. Disdain for black-eyed peas. The ability to dwell, for long spells, in a world not eclipsed by race. Skin, eyes, hair. My mother...
...Furthermore, the Independent Spirit Awards have a kind of hipper-than-thou ambiance, a disdain for the big system. While this is no bad thing in itself, the tone is often that of a convention of prissy elitists. The name of an obscure Polish animator is always on the lips, waiting to be played as a cultural trump card. "I'll raise you an Angolan documentary maker..." "I'll see your Indonesian cinematographer - and top it with my surprising taste for the subtext of the 'Ernest' movies...