Word: fedexing
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...commercials are king - and often more entertaining than the game - capitalism still reigns, and Madison Avenue still has its dynasties. Anheuser-Busch, who brought us the once-riveting Bud Bowl, has bought 10 of CBS' $2.3 million 30-second spots. Pepsi will be all over the place, as will FedEx and Visa. EDS, who last year gave us the "cat herders" treat, is back with a running-of-the-squirrels Pamplona thing. And Bob Dole is hawking - well, it's sort of a surprise, which we won't spoil in case the game's a stinker...
Last week's bad news showed just how much. Retail sales fell 0.4% in November, led by the biggest drop in car sales in more than two years. Both UPS and FedEx reported that holiday shipments are slackening, while Microsoft and Compaq became the latest tech titans to blame poor earnings on a slowing home-PC market. Consumer sentiment about the economy, as measured by the University of Michigan, is at a three-year low. Given the drubbing on Wall Street this year, that's not surprising. As the NASDAQ soared in the past few years, the market created...
...Hanks is back on a killer beach, this time alone. The soldiers hitting the Normandy sands in Saving Private Ryan faced grim death, but it might come in the arms of a buddy. Chuck Noland, the FedEx manager stranded on a Pacific island after a plane crash, has no one to talk to, to bray at, as he did to his harried underlings at work--no one to shore up his resolve or share his desperation. Well, all right. Chuck is a doer. So he will fashion tools, clothing, shelter; find food, draw cave paintings, make fire. He will replicate...
...Hanks is back on a killer beach, and this time he's alone. The soldiers hitting the Normandy sands in "Saving Private Ryan" faced grim death, but it might come in the arms of a buddy. Chuck Noland, the FedEx manager stranded on a Pacific island after a plane crash, has no one to talk to, to bray at, as he did to his harried underlings at work - no one to shore up his resolve or share his desperation. Well, all right. Chuck is a doer. So he will fashion tools, clothing, shelter; find food, draw cave paintings, make fire...
...added, "Can we meet, and can you just let me hang out and listen and observe?" For those of you who have never got a mash note from a Broadway star, let me inform you that Goulet letters are not sent through the U.S. mail but are inserted into FedEx envelopes. Somebody sold more Man of La Mancha albums than we thought...