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...Search term data reveals that discussion topics on these sites can range anywhere from personal opinion and speculation on stock values to meaningless chest-thumping and flame wars. But the majority of search terms sending traffic to today's message boards are stock symbols. TRMP (Trump Entertainment), MCZ (Mad Catz video game accessories), NVAX (vaccine maker Novavax), NPLA (InPlay Technologies) were the most popular over the last four weeks...
...Made in China Re Jyoti Thottam's "The Growing Dangers of the China Trade" [July 9]: Have we selectively forgotten that mad-cow-diseased beef and other tainted food products like bagged spinach and peanut butter originated on U.S. soil within the past few years? To pathologize China's industries as corrupt not only reeks of centuries-old Yellow Peril rhetoric but also fails to acknowledge the shortcomings of transnational regulations. We must take responsibility for cleaning up our own backyard when demanding that others take care of theirs. Rachel Endo, Omaha, Nebraska...
...position, and the ref stops the fight. The medics cart Palmer out on a stretcher. (She escapes with a fractured foot, suffered earlier in the bout--which seems minor, considering the beating she took.) "I like to be friendly to my opponents, but from the start, she's been mad-dogging me, looking me up and down," said Bagherdai after the bout. "I wanted to make...
...Jyoti Thottam's the growing dangers of the China Trade" [July 9]: Have we selectively forgotten that mad-cow-diseased beef and other tainted food products like bagged spinach and peanut butter originated on U.S. soil within the past few years? To pathologize China's industries as corrupt not only reeks of centuries-old Yellow Peril rhetoric but also fails to acknowledge the shortcomings of transnational regulations. We must take responsibility for cleaning up our own backyard when demanding that others take care of theirs...
...airlines notwithstanding, of course) given that your lifetime value as a profitable client is much too high to discard because of a couple of nasty complains. The math is compelling: it costs a lot of money to acquire a customer and relatively little to keep them if they get mad - some free minutes or a couple of bucks off the bill will usually do the trick. The companies know that there's a a certain amount of inertia that keeps us from moving, even if the service is lousy. (Think about the last time you switched banks...