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Every company pays lip service to customer service, but anyone who has endured an airline's phone-support hell or talked to a clueless sales clerk in an electronics store knows the truth. In many cases, the customer comes dead last. A company like Toys "R" Us may blame Wal-Mart for destroying its core toy business, but "[nobody's] customers just walk away; they will put up with a lot of stuff," says business strategist Fred Wiersema. "By the time they switch, they are really...
...order to pay off the massive deficit that this country is currently saddled with. We hope he will craft a workable strategy to win the peace in Iraq. We hope that he will choose to take measures to protect the environment and reduce global warming, instead of paying lip service to the natural bounty he will leave to younger generations. And we hope he will refrain from appointing Supreme Court justices who represent the views of a small subset of conservative Americans. Not everyone who voted for George W. Bush agreed with every one of his policies, and since...
...Bush paid lip service to environmental policy—since former vice president Al Gore ’69 wanted to be the environmental president. In the past three years, he has sped resource development on public land across the country. He backed off his 2000 campaign promise to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, and he abandoned the 1997 Kyoto Protocol that had been so important to Gore. In the year 2000 alone, the number of general drilling permits doled out by the government increased to 5,222. That’s 50 percent higher than the average of the three...
...Republican party may cringe at the extended airtime given to the controversial topic, but—as William Safire implied in his Oct. 18th editorial column in the New York Times—that they might have scored the final point on this one: The Democrats’ lip service was decidedly uncouth, and that’s not likely to go over well in those Midwestern swing states. And pro-Kerry activists like Michael Rogers, of blogactive.com, can tap his fingers gleefully and cross off one more person from the list of Gay Republicans Who I Must...
...remind us of that curmudgeonly relative who blurts out what everyone else is really thinking at the family reunion. While accepting a songwriting award in London last week, the elder rocker, 57, griped that he couldn't believe Madonna had been nominated for best live act. "Since when has lip synching been live?" John asked. "Madonna, best [expletive] live act? [Expletive] off." Last month John called a group of Taiwanese paparazzi who ambushed him "rude, vile pigs." And last spring he called the reality show American Idol "racist" after two black contestants were eliminated. The Rocket Man's recent sounding...