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...initiative, called Business for Diplomatic Action, was founded a year ago by Keith Reinhard, the chairman of DDB Worldwide, and Thomas Miller, an ex-pollster at NOP World. Its mission statement: "To sensitize American companies and individuals to the rise of anti-Americanism in the world and to enlist the U.S. business community in specific actions aimed at addressing the issue and reducing the problem." It has already published a quarter of a million copies of a World Citizens Guide underwritten by Pepsi and UPS for U.S. students overseas. "It's not good news for American businesses that people...
...year even become local representatives for their program. Becky and David Massey, 56 and 58, a food-service director and a factory worker in Oregon, Ohio, are typical. Through the Aspect Foundation, they welcomed kids from Germany, Ecuador and Palestine, among other faraway places. As volunteer representatives, the Masseys enlist host families and mediate any problems that arise during the school year...
Jack P. McCambridge ’06, visiting from Winthrop house, reasoned that allowing freshman girls would at least take enforcement pressure off the staff. “You could just enlist final club members to work the door,” he joked...
...duty G.I.s can now earn as much as $70,000 for college, up from $50,000. In outlays that won't show up as costs for the Iraq war, the Army is rolling out more than $1 billion in bonuses and benefits this year to induce young Americans to enlist and to entice those already in uniform to extend their service. There are premiums to be pocketed for signing up for certain jobs--infantry, military police, transportation--as well as for agreeing to ship out quickly to train--and then, probably, go to Iraq...
...bandwidth costs. "It's something like the Internet in the mid-'90s," Stalter says. "Remember when everything was free? You put it in, then you ask yourself how you're going to make money." His idea is eventually to flip Spokane's HotZone to a pay service. He will enlist local businesses to sell prepaid Internet-access cards to people wandering through the HotZone. But Stalter might also recall how scores of well-intentioned dotcoms went bust in the late 1990s when they tried to get consumers to pay for what they were used to getting for free...