Word: nielsen
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...Steen Broust Nielsen, 36, is due to become a new father. Although the Denmark-based marketing director is looking forward to the new arrival, he will be taking his two weeks' paid paternity leave in a haphazard fashion. "We have an interim report coming up, so I can't possibly stay away too long," he says. Perhaps "half a day here and half a day there, when it's convenient." Despite the fact that in addition to those two paid paternity weeks Danish law allows both parents to share 32 weeks' state benefit-supported leave during the first nine years...
...Minutes aired, White House communications director Dan Bartlett was countering Clarke's charges in interviews with the networks and cable news channels. Reporters also received a four-page rebuttal of Clarke's book by email from the White House. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, who racked up the most Nielsen points, declined to speak publicly before the 9/11 commission, citing Executive privilege, but swung at Clarke for any reporter willing to listen. She even took the rare step of inviting unwieldy clutches of journalists into her vast but tidy West Wing office. "What's the Texas expression?" asks a Bush...
When the word of SlamBall is spread, and it starts knocking American Idol off the top of the Nielsen Ratings, you’ll thank...
...DIED. PETER NIELSEN, 36, air-traffic controller who was blamed for a 2002 midair collision over southern Germany that killed 71 people, mostly Russian schoolchildren; of stab wounds he suffered in an attack at his home; in Zurich. Police arrested a 48-year-old man, whose name has not been released, on suspicion of killing Nielsen. Investigators say the suspect lost his wife, a daughter and a son in the crash...
...move to outsourcing forces a company to use its resources where they count most, like product development. "For some of them, it's almost a question of survival. If they don't develop new products, they'll fail," says Laxmi Narayanan, CEO of Cognizant. Nielsen Media Research, which rates television shows, used Cognizant's programmers in India to develop NetRatings for websites. That new line of business allowed the company to hire sales staff and analysts in the U.S. to interpret the ratings for clients and eventually to start selling the product in Asia. Lightpointe, an optical-networking firm based...