Word: gainful
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Eleta's tactics are instructive. Step One: P&G chose to focus its marketing dollars on just 12 of its 300 brands: Always feminine products; Bounty; Charmin toilet paper; Crest; Dawn dishwashing cleaner; Downy fabric softener; Gain and Tide laundry detergents; Herbal Essences, Head & Shoulders and Pantene shampoos; and Pampers. Why not, say, P&G's Iams pet-food line? Median household income for Hispanics is $33,000, compared with $48,000 for the non-Hispanic population; P&G's market research found that relative to the general population, Hispanics tended to spend less on their pets...
...League Players' Association proposed a 24% rollback on all players' salaries; the league, which says it has lost some $500 million in the last two seasons, insists on capping players' salaries. The standoff seems likely to scupper the entire NHL season. But the NHL's loss is Europe's gain. Rather than sit out the dispute in North America, more than 300 NHL players have signed up with European teams and dozens more are expected. The new arrivals - many of them from Eastern Europe to begin with - have reinvigorated a European game that's been losing popularity to soccer. Hockey...
...staff we are going to keep all options open. I'm not saying yes or no at this point," says Republican Congressman Mike Castle of Delaware, who leads a group of Republican moderates known as the Main Street Partnership. "It's well and good to say the average gain [in an investment account] would be higher than if you left it in Social Security, but there's a definite certainty to Social Security. When you're in the market, you're subject to the whims of the market...
...most crucial interest groups will be Wall Street. But where, precisely, is its interest? The general assumption has been that investment firms stand to gain a windfall from money that would flow into the new accounts. At the other end of the Street, the bond market could turn thumbs down on the grounds that trillions in new government borrowing would hurt the economy, raise interest rates and make the dollar suffer. But both assumptions may be overblown, financial experts say. Though University of Chicago economist Austan Goolsbee has estimated that the financial-services industry could reap $940 billion in fees...
...religious parties and scores of independents grouped together on a single slate at the discreet behest of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, to individuals who have put their own names on the form in the hope they can achieve the approximately 44,000 votes nationwide that will be needed to gain a seat in the 275-member National Assembly...