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Small businesses were of course hard-hit, but big firms, like Cathay Pacific Airways, also suffered huge losses. Tourism, a major source of revenue, dropped to terrifyingly low levels, and confidence in the government plummeted. This was the first year that the locals had run their own government, so Hong Kong residents began to think that, maybe--just maybe--their own people simply weren't as qualified for the job as they had anticipated...
With so much business up for grabs, hard-hit Burnett (billings: $5.82 billion) has won some battles too. The agency pulled a $250 million Procter & Gamble account away from Saatchi & Saatchi in January and brags about its quirky campaign for Altoids ("The curiously strong peppermints"), a 200-year-old brand of British breath mints. Burnett says the ads have brought Altoids from nowhere to a 10% share of the $235 million U.S. market for breath mints in just three years. Says Linda Wolf, Burnett's group president for North America: "When it comes to being edgy and offbeat and getting...
...that both the House and Senate have overwhelmingly passed a stripped-down, White House-friendly version of the disaster relief bill, leaving Republicans to count their dead after yet another crushing public relations defeat at the hands of the Democratic minority. Said an exultant Kent Conrad, a Democrat from hard-hit North Dakota, of the bill that will provide $5.6 billion in aid for victims of disasters in 35 states: "Many of us wondered if this day was going to come, and here it is." Thousands of families bereft by flood damage can only echo his relief...
...Crimson strung together nine hits in the fifth through eighth innings after being no-hit through four, but a freak groundout to third that deflected off Northeastern pitcher John Forneiro, and two hard-hit double-plays ended three of those rallies. (Harvard scored in the other inning, the sixth, off of Jamie Crowley's triple into the right-center...
...letter. To the contrary, he seems pleased with the status quo and unconcerned that some teams must make extensive efforts just to guarantee the basics. What about our idea of creating a general "Friends of Harvard Sports" fund to encourage financial gifts that could ease the burden on hard-hit teams...