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...chicken aroused" in Mexico), Puffs ("whorehouse" in German) and Gerber ("to throw up" in French slang) might seem merely funny. But misunderstandings can hit the bottom line. In 1997--at risk of a worldwide boycott by Muslims--Nike recalled 38,000 pairs of its "Bakin" basketball shoes because the logo resembled the word Allah in Arabic. And it's not just English speakers who miscommunicate. If Electrolux made shoddy vacuum cleaners, it wouldn't be one of the world's most successful home-appliance makers. But the Swedish company first entered the English-speaking market with this boast: "Nothing sucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exporting: And What Does It Mean in Farsi? | 11/26/2001 | See Source »

...commercial for Nokia cell phone covers that feature the logos of ACC basketball teams, begins with two attractive young businesspeople, a man and a women, walking through the lobby of an office building. The woman realizes she has forgotten her cell phone and asks the man if she can borrow his. He hands her his phone, which has a University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Tar Heels logo on it. The woman promptly throws the phone out the window, and explains, Duke. Class of 94. The man nods, understanding completely...

Author: By Thomasin D. Franken, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Rival Rivalry | 11/15/2001 | See Source »

...happened is what has even grizzled veterans scratching their heads. The result of what happened is emerging: the plane came violently apart and sent huge sections of the aircraft hurtling through the air. The so-called vertical tail fin - the vertical part of the tail with the distinctive 'AA' logo on it - was recovered from the water looking oddly clean and undamaged, looking as good as the day it left the hangar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flight 587: More Questions Than Answers | 11/14/2001 | See Source »

...suspect is described as 5'9" and wearing a dark-blue hooded sweatshirt with a GAP logo and baggy blue pants...

Author: By Alex B. Ginsberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Two Armed Robbery Suspects Still At Large | 11/13/2001 | See Source »

...Satanic, yet they use Satanic imagery as a means to express their rejection of mainstream society. In fact, as the stage was being set for the Iowans, a huge black flag hid the area, emblazoned with the band’s tribal “S” logo entwined with a red pentagram. Slipknot’s overall nihilistic message fits with their onstage personas, that of anonymous and inhuman characters/monsters. With their faces covered by demonic masks, their identities are marked only by the numbers on their sleeves: “0” through...

Author: By Michael T. Packard, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Heavy Metal | 11/9/2001 | See Source »

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