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...long career as an executive and later as a consultant, Jim Hamm oversaw operations in factories along the U.S.-Mexico border. He always wondered how the maquiladora workers managed to make ends meet on incomes that were a fraction of their American counterparts'. One day, while visiting friends, Hamm stumbled on a shelf of anthropology textbooks--and was hooked. At first he nourished his voracious interest with books alone. Later he began taking anthropology courses at the University of New Hampshire. Four years ago, he enrolled in a Ph.D. program at the University of Massachusetts. He has an advantage over...
With Duehay's retirement, the council only has three CCA members--Born, Jim Braude and Davis--making it hard for Born to gather the necessary five votes to get elected mayor. Though Decker has voted for Born so far, she has not yet been able to garner the elusive fifth vote, and Decker's vote is not entirely secure...
...Reeves doesn't have a history with Jim Braude, so he doesn't have a reason not to like him," Koocher said...
Theglobe.com an online community, had just launched a new website-building service called uPublish!, and research manager Jim Olstrom was naturally eager to know whether his customers were having problems creating their home pages. As recently as last November, he would have had little choice but to wait while a market-research firm surveyed users in order to put together a report he might read two months later. Instead, he turned to InsightExpress, the country's first fully automated online market-research service. Within a few hours Olstrom learned from it that some new customers were finding the directions...
...service already has fans. Jack Honomichl, publisher of industry newsletter Inside Research, believes InsightExpress is "revolutionary," partly because "it's fully automated but very personal and interactive." But traditional research still delivers more inclusive samples and data better suited to projections. Jim Spaeth, president of the Advertising Research Foundation, observes that "there could be a problem if it replaces high-quality research." Charles Hamlin, InsightExpress president, agrees: "InsightExpress is an appropriate tool for getting a good sense of the marketplace. If you are making decisions of magnitude, we encourage you to use the traditional market-research industry...