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Diana, Princess of Wales, was a commodity - and she had a pretty shrewd idea of her own value. "You see yourself as a good product that sits on a shelf and sells well," she said in a famous confessional BBC TV interview in 1995. "And people make a lot of money...
Princess Diana had a pretty good idea of her own value. "You see yourself as a good product that sits on a shelf and sells well," she said in a confessional BBC TV interview in 1995. "And people make a lot of money out of you." Indeed. Tina Brown's new biography fetched a large advance. Pilgrims flock to $25 tours of Diana's family home and grave site. More than 100 governments will be issuing Diana stamps this year. More commemorative commerce...
...with each new product, Kuhlmann tests the limits of the firm's founding ideals. Take mortgages. ING Direct offers just two: a five-year mortgage currently at 6.60% APR and a seven-year one at 6.67%. Why no 30 year? Kuhlmann reasons that since most people move or refinance within seven years, they just don't need it. "It seems to me they're paying a lot more than they need to," he says. That's a fine principle. But the reality is that most people still want a 30-year mortgage. So this spring, ING Direct started referring people...
...where they can report "objectionable" images. Asked about how many images had been removed thus far due to reports from users, Chau could not offer an exact number but said it had been negligible. He noted that the company has received mostly positive feedback, suggesting visitors are using the product as it was intended. "Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful... a significant amount of information can be found in mapping the world, by gaining a better understanding of the world in general," he says...
...made clear, Reagan's efforts to exert his leadership are severely handicapped. Europeans readily acknowledge that in arms negotiations American military power far overshadows that of any other ! ally: indeed, U.S. defense spending ($289 billion last year) is more than half the size of Britain's entire gross domestic product ($547 billion in 1986). But in economic matters, the crippling U.S. budget and trade deficits cause America to appear as a supplicant rather than a confident leader. The $170 billion shortfall in trade last year made the U.S. the world's largest debtor nation. A Western diplomat in Venice said...