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...faces that challenged the layoffs in 2004 have reappeared today as well. Geoff P. Carens, an HCL librarian vocally opposed to any kind of layoffs, organized rallies for the Campaign then as now, while Jaeger and other HUCTW leaders said in both instances that their focus is on negotiating with the University to find creative layoff alternatives...
...billion stimulus-spending program, which is focused on infrastructure projects like water and sewer systems. But for the company to benefit (it manufactures equipment for wastewater circulation and filtration), government money must actually go to infrastructure building and not be wasted through inefficiencies and corruption. Bawang, which competes with P&G and Unilever, among other companies that make personal-care products, is supposed to ride China's rising personal consumption. That may be a dicey proposition in a country of thrifty citizens who have long been accustomed to saving nearly 40% of their disposable household income. (See pictures of Beijing...
...experiment," says P&G spokesman David Bernens. "We're playing with it and seeing how people respond." Marketing for feminine-hygiene products always presents a particular challenge, since riding the cotton pony is nobody's favorite topic of conversation. (Unless you count some feminist academics.) Menstruation remains, if not taboo, then still pretty damn awkward to talk about. Hence the number of euphemisms this story employs. (See the best and worst Super Bowl commercials...
Mostly, Zack16 is an interesting exercise in finding a side door into a difficult conversation. The online videos refer to the situation only obliquely - Zack doesn't say the name of the new body part he has acquired until the very end. And P&G has no plans to move the campaign to a more mainstream media outlet. "There's always a small group of people who say, 'I don't want to think about this or talk about this, and I don't think it should be on TV at all,' " says Bernens. For now, those viewers can relax...
...time to figure out the plot and forestall the attacks. Novelist Tom Clancy, after all, published the idea in 1994. Unlike the rest of the Bush Administration, Gates - the best Secretary of Defense since George C. Marshall, if not ever - has kept us safe since being sworn in. David P. Vernon, Tucson, Ariz...