Word: platforms
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...Zune follows in the footsteps of the successful Xbox, but unlike the videogame business, where there are only a few companies capable of launching a platform at any given time, the Zune enters a field already littered with MP3 players. Nearly every MP3 player that's not an iPod can connect to a monthly subscription service: any new flash player from Samsung, iriver, SanDisk or Creative will synch with Napster, RealNetworks' Rhapsody, Yahoo's Y! Unlimited or MTV Urge. In fact, even Samsung's newest Cingular phone, appropriately dubbed the Sync, can do this...
...Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity is also a traditional order that is based in Mantiwoc, Wisc. In 2003, the order hired a Milwaukee-based marketing team in 2003 to help them recruit young women. The firm produced several TV and radio spots, as well as this multi-platform web site. The site features a downloadable song of the month that is donated by up-and-coming Christian artists, a blog written by the sisters and a podcast...
...after elections, the President's most prominent offer of cooperation came on this issue. Democrats have long made raising the federal minimum wage, which hasn't budged since 1997, a centerpiece of their platform. They want to boost it from $5.15 an hour to $7.25. The party's congressional members have pledged not to raise their own pay until the hike passes...
...have clearly established three priorities: combatting poverty, creating jobs--which was the principal platform of my campaign--and improving public security. Regarding poverty, I want to create a public-policy consensus, above all in education and health, that will let me move ahead quickly, and I'll need support from the Congress for these budget priorities. As for employment, I insisted during my campaign--and I still insist--that we need a competitive, job-creating economy. But in order to have that, you have to make market conditions more competitive, and that means reducing the monopoly power of some public...
...ship's engineer: out of sight, always working, covered in grease. Part of his role in Labor's strategy group is to cost proposed election promises and find existing programs that can be cut. As well, Tanner and others have stripped out those parts of the a.l.p. platform that were closely identified with former leader Mark Latham (such as the deeply flawed funding model for schools and the health-care money pit known as Medicare Gold...