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...rise of a global middle class that's equipped to absorb it. When it first came out in 2006, the newly minted consumers in the Middle East, Latin America and Asia had the TVs to watch it on; their kids could keep the buzz alive via Internet and cell phone. After the movie aired on Chinese TV, Ross called his man in Beijing to ask for viewer numbers. "Oh, above average," came the response. "About 50 million...
...already getting desperate. One lost a home recently and is living with relatives. Some clients are scrambling to accept even temp positions that pay far less than the jobs they held before the layoffs. Others reveal a growing sense of fear simply in their voices when talking on the phone with Tracey, who says that most people eventually find some kind of employment. "It's not completely a black hole here," says Tracey, whose firm has a database of about 1,000 job seekers. "It's just taking a long time, even for the best people...
...verify Gall’s story, they consulted with a number of private investigators and lawyers to insure that there was no threat to the security of the students registered in case the whole trip was a hoax, Zafran said. According to Zafran, Gall only had the names, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses of the students who had registered for the trip. Obama headquarters in each of the cities had already arranged housing for the volunteers, and the Dems had begun working on arranging local transportation. “It’s consumed my life for the last...
...Weston, W.V., office of the Philadelphia-based firm, 1.2.1 Direct Response, for a few months to make money for school, mostly selling cable packages. (As it happens, Obama himself had done the same thing during one school year at Columbia University, selling New York Times subscriptions over the phone.) When she saw the anti-Obama script, which linked Obama to bombings at the Pentagon and the Capitol, it bothered...
...says. "I didn't know if it was true. I wouldn't have done it if it was anti-McCain either. Everything about it was wrong." She told the Charleston newspaper that she was also worried about the fact that she didn't know who might be answering the phone when she called, and was especially concerned that she might be delivering her message to a child or an elderly person. Her bosses gave her a choice, she said: Read it, or go home-without...