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...would not be giving a keynote at the annual Macworld Expo, Jobs denied reports that he was in declining health. The charismatic founder has consistently maintained that he has a rare but treatable form of the disease, and attributed his emaciated appearance - first noticed during a press event during the summer - to a "hormone imbalance." Jobs, 53, said he had already begun treatment, which he described as "relatively simple and straightforward...
...Loyalty can help you do that, and Subaru has leveraged its existing customers, who identify more with their cars than perhaps is healthy. "If you stop a Subaru owner at sporting event, ski slope, shopping center, they'll tell you, 'I love this car,' " says Mahoney. And being the opinionated-bumper-sticker type, they are more likely to recommend the brand than even Toyota or Honda owners...
...been watching cable TV. The two-minute commercial for the "blanket with sleeves," which began airing last September, has been playing endlessly - and not just on struggling channels during the wee hours of the morning. Images of Snuggie-clad family members high-fiving one another at an outdoor sporting event - and looking like, as one blogger put it, a "laid-back Satanic cult" - have appeared during prime time on such cable stalwarts as ESPN, Comedy Central and CNN, becoming so ubiquitous that everyone from Jay Leno to a gazillion people on YouTube is taking note. Witness this "Cult...
...Despite all the pension-plan woes, employees who have a defined-benefit plan aren't as exposed to the market's volatility as people invested primarily in 401(k) plans, experts say. Even in the event of a corporate bankruptcy, employees with defined-benefit plans are to some degree protected by the Federal Government's Pension Benefits Guaranty Corporation...
...have since expanded to include eight Boston schools: BU, BC, Emerson, Northeastern, Berklee, MIT, Tufts, and Harvard.In February, each school will host its own Battle of the Bands in order to select its most talented group. On April 10, a winner will be selected in a final round. The event will include a celebrity judge and coverage by MTV, and the winning band will be profiled in Rolling Stone. As to the longer horizon, the managers of Veritas are always looking to expand their activities and to extend their contribution to Harvard’s music sphere...