Word: reasonings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hence, Wal-Mart is well stocked in inconsistencies. South Park, the cartoon television series and recent movie, features a funny but foulmouthed cast of characters and an infinite collection of toilet jokes. The South Park video game got to the shelves but not the film. Reason: Wal-Mart's game buyer figured that customers who purchase it are already familiar with the characters. The video buyer, on the other hand, believed that customers associate animated films with movies such as Bambi and not with Cartman and his profane pals. (No doubt the boys would have joyously killed and consumed Bambi...
...business practices hurt rivals, not consumers. But Jackson found that Microsoft was so quick to crush any perceived threats that countless technology products that should have been developed died stillborn. "The ultimate result," he wrote, "is that some innovations that would truly benefit consumers never occur for the sole reason that they do not coincide with Microsoft's self-interest." Even more devastating, Jackson found that in its rush to make life tough for its competitors, Microsoft was actually willing to diminish the quality of its own products. Bundling a Web browser into Windows 98 did not benefit consumers...
None of which means, necessarily, that practicing polyamory should be reason enough to lose custody of your child. In the Divilbiss case, four sets of independent, court-appointed experts concluded that Alana should be returned to her mother. They have also recommended counseling for everyone involved...
That's one reason not to sell in the wake of Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's ruling on Friday. Things aren't as bleak as they seem, and the stock--depressed in recent weeks--could start to run very soon now that the bad news is out. In perverse Wall Street logic, "the cloud has been lifted," notes analyst Brian Goodstadt at Standard & Poor's. Except for Valley brats who compete with Microsoft (themselves fabulously rich), nobody really wants the stock to fail...
...initial reason for my skepticism was that colds are caused by hundreds of different kinds of viruses. Finding a single treatment that is cheap, as well as safe and effective against all of them, is a daunting task. (Today's cold remedies treat only the symptoms and not the cause.) Then I started wondering if the folks at Gel Tech, the company that developed Zicam, knew what they were doing. Just four days after Gel Tech announced that its study of Zicam had been accepted for publication by the American Journal of Infection Control, the journal editor asked the company...