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...slick website, skillful ads - to convince both the intelligentsia and voters that relinquishing a national currency, especially control of interest rates, will lose Britain more than it gains. The key campaign slogan - "Europe Yes, Euro No" - has blunted Prime Minister Tony Blair's push to paint all keep-the-pound forces as crazies who want to pull Britain out of the E.U. altogether...
...tiny lobby group Business for Sterling, of which he is campaign director, has repeatedly derailed Labour's fearsome public relations machine in its efforts to make euro membership look desirable and inevitable. Polls show that two-thirds of British voters now want to retain the pound...
TIME.com: Europeans are outraged by President Bush's rejection of the Kyoto accord. But with the 500-pound guerrilla of carbon-gas output saying no to cutting emissions, what options are left to the Europeans...
Reginald Vel Johnson, TV's lovable Carl Winslow, makes the leap from television sitcoms to his first feature role. In Chocolat, he plays Shawn Kemp, a 330-pound power forward who struggles with his eating problems and his confinement to the Portland Trail Blazers bench. He also cannot spell the foods he loves so much because, like so many NBA players today, he made the leap to the pros before he finished school. Of course, that was back when he could leap...
Automating a telephone transaction can save lots of dough--as much as 75% off the $5-to-$15 cost of dealing with each call. But, as Paula Skokowski, vice president of marketing at voice-solutions-provider General Magic, notes, "You never see the savings, because everyone is pressing zero-pound" to get to a human. By integrating these newfangled, intelligent virtual-call centers with the rest of a company's Net infrastructure, and then hosting them on their own networks, Tellme, BeVocal and other application service providers hope to make effective customer self-service a reality. One example...