Word: lifting
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...fans will want to record the event; Fuji Photo, a Japanese film company (see Canon); Coca-Cola, one of the main sponsors; Tesco, a British takeaway-food retailer; InterContinental Hotels; Puma, the German sports-shoe company, because of "higher-than-average brand awareness" as all sports equipment gets a lift; and Beiersdorf, a German personal-products manufacturer. It seems clear that you could substitute, say, Anheuser-Busch for Heineken or Kodak for Fuji or McDonald's for Tesco. Those bench players may be based in the U.S., but they have global franchises. Gorle acknowledges the general nature...
...with the attempt to lift the Tigua casino ban, the effort to get explicit Congressional action on Abramoff's behalf failed. But as far as Safavian is concerned the damage was done. Four days later he wrote a letter to an ethics officer at GSA asking permission to go on the Scotland trip and said airfare would be paid for by a "lobbyist" who "has no business before GSA." The Justice department cited this as evidence of obstruction and making false statements on Safavian's part when it indicted him last year. Safavian goes on trial May 22. Safavian...
...reason to suspend its interest-rate hikes, a prospect that has already sparked a bond-market rally. While Katrina's impact on the Gulf economy is devastating in the near term, an infusion of federal disaster-relief dollars should stimulate industries from homebuilding to appliances and help lift the economy...
...home stretch for enrolling seniors in Medicare's new drug benefit, which President Bush hopes will eventually give him a lift in his sagging poll numbers. So it's no surprise that the President and other top Administration officials have hit the road this week, pitching hard to convince more of the elderly to sign up before the Monday deadline and insisting that they are past the program's initially ragged start...
...publicity, so they "can experience the Disney magic themselves [and] better share it with their passengers." And even if attendance lags for a while, Disney says the park is already benefiting its other businesses in Asia. Andy Bird, president of Walt Disney International, says there's been "a noticeable lift in our brand and character awareness" in China since the park's opening?for example, sales of Buzz Lightyear merchandise have jumped, in part because the character features in Disneyland's popular Astro Blasters ride. David Miller, an analyst at investment-banking firm Sanders Morris Harris in Los Angeles, agrees...