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...packed in here all day long,” said Store Director Brian Knowles, who along with the other three store employees was sporting a small pen on a string around his neck. “We were going to close at 8 and had to move...
...More people think that Kerry will raise their taxes than did a month ago. Kerry's "unfavorables" are higher than they were before the Bush campaign put $50 million worth of advertising on the air. But the larger dynamic of the race hasn't changed. It was pretty much neck and neck a month ago. It's very much neck and neck now. And you have to wonder about the impact of all those ads on the President: in a very serious year, he has allowed his candidacy to appear sarcastic and frivolous. In fact, most negative advertising seems sort...
Despite such magnanimity, Toyota is a tenacious competitor. After years of turbocharged growth, the company is running neck and neck with Ford to be the world's second largest automaker, after General Motors. But its leaders acknowledge that efficiency is not enough if Toyota's growth is to continue. "We need to continue innovating," says Okuda. That explains a campaign to shift the industry from its dependence on petroleum-based fuels. Despite widespread skepticism, Toyota pressed on with the Prius, the world's first mass-market petroleum-electric hybrid car. A hybrid SUV is scheduled for release this fall...
...held three Italian hostages, including her brother Maurizio. Three days before, word of a different videotape, which al-Jazeera declined to air, had galvanized Italy. It showed a fourth captive, Fabrizio Quattrocchi, calmly saying, "I'll show you how an Italian dies," before taking a bullet in the neck. Iraq 's continuing turmoil has been boosting antiwar feeling in Italy, but last week, public solidarity with Agliana and the other captives was intense. The government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi tried to extricate the hostages through secret talks, and denied reports it was paying a ransom. But when Berlusconi crowed...
...fill out without the help of a wad of quilted Charmin two-ply. This Jenna shops at Henri Bendel, drinks non-virgin Pina Coladas, organizes her files with Lisa Frank unicorn emblazoned folders, and knows the dance routine to Michael Jackson’s Thriller down to every last neck gyration. This Jenna was the prom queen and calls Tom Tom (now referred to as Lucy) her right-hand woman at Poise magazine, where she is, of course, the editor. This Jenna is also her adolescent worst nightmare—a cheating, backstabbing, lying bitch...