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...outcome is far from a sure thing. Enterprise executives say their deep network of relationships in the replacement market and the company's service-focused culture will help it prevail. "Competition isn't a bad thing," says Jim Runnels, senior vice president of rental at Enterprise. "I've seen a lot of companies come and go. One of the reasons we've done as well as we have is that customer service has been our primary focus, and that isn't something that just happens. You have to work very hard at that." Clearly, Hertz doesn't have an easy...
...Mart launched its in-store TV network in 1997 to pitch products and entertain shoppers. But do people really watch TV while they shop? A new AC Nielsen study says Wal-Mart customers are watching seven minutes of TV while shopping, up from five minutes in 2002. Brand recall was even more surprising--65%, compared with 23% for products advertised on TV. Having installed 100,000 TVs in 2,620 stores, Wal-Mart is rolling out new plasma and LCD models--some at eye level for "can't miss" advertising. PRN (Premier Retail Networks) customizes entertainment, news and product...
...worked on Out of Sight, Clooney the producer has used Clooney the actor as barter. He did it to get Warner Bros. to make next year's Good Night and Good Luck, a movie about Edward R. Murrow's battle with Joseph McCarthy that CBS, Murrow's old network, had passed on as a TV movie. "It's hard to shoot something in black and white," Clooney says. "If I say I'll be in it for scale and direct it for scale, it helps...
...walls are industrial gray, the bulletin boards on its walls lined with frayed red construction paper. The long neon bulbs that hang overhead are suspended by a lattice of steel supports that angle down from what appears to be corrugated tin. Like a Pompidou Center minus the art, a network of unabashedly exposed rectangular ducts, pipes of varying thickness, massive red steel columns, and I-beams lined with coffee-mug-size rivets frame the edges of the room...
...night. Outspoken and homesick, he turned to the Black Men’s Forum (BMF), where he found a group of friends who felt just as alienated. By the end of his junior year, Terry had become president of the organization, transforming it from a relatively small social network into one of the college’s most active clubs. His rap group Tha League opened for Fabolous and Busta Rhymes. Everybody knew his name, in other words, and they weren’t running away from him anymore...