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...make the same link with Kleenex. So 33% of respondents say they will avoid Barbie, but only 10% won't touch the tissues. (Worldwide Barbie-doll sales fell 13% in the third quarter of 2004.) The study found that U.S. brands with few substitutes such as Levi's and Microsoft should go unscathed. But 43% of consumers overseas say they won't smoke Marlboro cigarettes. "I don't think foreign policy is going to drive down quarterly revenues right away," says GMI chief operating officer Mitchell Eggers, who spearheaded the study. "But over time, given the sharp change...
...politically correct version of Clinton’s autobiography is only the latest in a long tradition of making cheap Asian knockoffs of Western products, from Gucci bags to Harry Potter to Microsoft. Businesses are furious about a practice they say costs $200-250 billion a year in lost revenue and have made it a priority to pressure foreign governments to crack down. But if Americans are really serious about stopping cross-Pacific piracy, we might want to start with our own movie industry...
...Harvard, during this election season, employee groups gave 19 times more in campaign donations to John Kerry than George W. Bush, and they constituted the second largest source of group donations to the Kerry campaign in the entire country, ahead of runners up Time Warner, Goldman Sachs and Microsoft...
...Microsoft OneNote...
Missed a question on your midterm that came straight from lecture because you couldn’t read your notes? Microsoft OneNote could have saved you some points. This program lets you record audio while you type notes during lecture so you won’t ever miss a thing. If you have a tablet PC (see below), you can incorporate handwritten diagrams too! Art history majors can appreciate the drag-and-drop feature that lets you add pictures/slides from the Internet. This is a must-have for people who can’t keep their notes organized...