Word: leaders
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...tried the giveaway trick before, with impressive results. In 1993, he persuaded his then client Computer Associates (whose controversial founder Charles Wang is also a co-founder of Smile Train) to give away copies of its personal-finance software, Simply Money, to try to establish a bulkhead against market leader Intuit's Quicken. The "Free Money" campaign was so successful - garnering something like a million calls in two weeks - that it strained MCI's phone banks, says Mullaney...
...Fernando Lugo, Ecuador's Rafael Correa, Argentina's Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Bolivia's Evo Morales and the grand old man of social revolution, Raúl Castro. (Stone profiled Raúl's brother in a similarly indulgent 2003 poli-doc, Commandante.) The only missing socialist leader is Daniel Ortega, President of Nicaragua - a regime whose electoral council outlawed the two main opposition groups from participating in the 2008 election and barred outside observers from monitoring the vote, which was widely criticized as rigged...
...genial treatment of them. Lula da Silva brags that Brazil paid off the IMF debt and that the country now has a $260 billion surplus. (Irmao, can you spare us a dime?) Morales, the first indigenous President of Bolivia, says he considers himself "less a President than a union leader." The Illinois-educated Correa says smilingly that the U.S. can again have a military base in Ecuador "if Ecuador can have a military base in Miami." Raúl Castro, survivor of a half-century of American disapproval, toasts his younger compadres: "Now we're ready for another 50 years...
...promising weekend and provide a rare bright spot for the struggling Crimson.“Nikhil was phenomenal,” Atkinson said. “I was encouraged to see how strong he is in goal. [Balaraman] is great fundamentally, but just as importantly, he is a strong leader on defense.”Senior Dan Furman also made a positive return to the pool, netting his first goal of the season against the Bulldogs.CLAREMONT 10, HARVARD 9The Crimson concluded Saturday’s action with a disappointing loss as the squad watched a two-goal lead evaporate...
...outspokenness are symbolic of what many hope will be a new, less constricting era. She certainly believes his ascension to power is a sign of change in Japan, one that she is happy to be a part of. "I think he will be a completely new style of leader..." she told Aera. "I think that the time has arrived and that his ideas are understood." (See pictures of a UFO congress...