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Oxiclean, the Stain Specialist! The bearded, brash and bombastic Billy Mays guides you through the amazing cleaning powers of Oxiclean powdered detergent. Pet stains, food stains, grass stains and wine stains, everything comes out with Oxiclean. “It makes your whites whiter, your brights brighter. As a stain remover, it’s the best! Long live your laundry, with Oxiclean...
Apple-polishing pet projects can, Bybee admits, make a teaching burden seem onerous for ambitious junior faculty. “So where are the students? Teaching is taken seriously rhetorically and even beyond rhetoric: it’s not the case that whether or not you get tenure hinges on teaching ability, but teaching is taken very seriously...
...about the Chevy Nova: General Motors' effort to market the car in Spanish-speaking countries--where no va means "doesn't go"--is a legendary blunder. And cross-language advertising is a bigger challenge than ever, as the first American company that tries to use the word pet in a French ad will find out. Intel is known for its cutting-edge technology, but the original translation of its Pentium IV chip was too edgy for Koreans; it means "chip of death." Kentucky Fried Chicken found good news and bad news when it went global with its "finger-lickin' good...
...roasting pans, squishy furniture, New Age music, DVD players and anything to turn your home into a movie theater so you don't have to go out to a real one. Beer sales are up nearly 7% over the same period last year; bottled water is up 20%. Pet adoptions are on the rise; so are sales of purebred puppies and teddy bears. The marketing can get desperate: a Denver furniture company advertises its mattresses with a picture of "Mike Ziegler, Area Fire Fighter" and the tag line "This is Mike. He can't afford a bad night's sleep...
...more officious character in the book. Of the more established actors in the cast, Robbie Coltrane bumbles his way into portraying a perfect Hagrid. Big and burly, he conveys an appropriate tenderness as a giant who has a fond spot for dangerous animals such as three-headed dogs (his pet “Fluffy”) and fire-breathing dragons. Dame Maggie Smith is appropriate as the stately and feline Professor McGonagall, and Richard Harris rasps his way through his role as Professor Dumbledore. Other famous stars only make brief appearances: John Cleese hams it up appropriately as Nearly-Headless...