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Both the ACLU's Snyder and Auwarter refer to the case of Doug Hann, a Brown student who was expelled in 1991--a case which the New York Times said called at the time "the first such expulsion in the country...
Along the way, there's business to be done. New media buccaneers refer to their easiest challenges as "low-hanging fruit," and in the merger announcement the two companies listed a series of efforts that would launch immediately: CNN.com programming featured on AOL services; AOL discs stuffed into Time Warner product shipments; cross-promotion of Warner Bros. movies on AOL-owned MovieFone. If none of these seems especially delicious, that's because low-hanging fruit rarely...
...instance, about 2 million small cars were sold, a minimally profitable 14% of the total. "The baby boomers are still the lion's share of the market," says Marty Levine, DaimlerChrysler's vice president of Chrysler Plymouth Jeep. That's precisely why DaimlerChrysler has been careful not to refer publicly to its new PT Cruiser--which is built on a small-car chassis and whose voluptuous curves are reminiscent of the cars of the '30s--as a youth attraction...
...Home Depot campaign is an indication, the greens have a good strategy. Reluctant to be called anti-business, they refer to "market campaigns" rather than consumer boycotts. To deter corporations from taking timber from untouched parts of British Columbia's Great Bear Forest, the world's largest vestige of coastal temperate rain forest, the Rainforest Action Network, along with the Sierra Club and other groups, used a stick and carrot on the big customers of lumber companies. The activists blasted Home Depot for buying Great Bear wood, but when the chain stopped, they ran ads praising the decision...
Marcus, who joined Amazon in '96, recalls learning Web coding on the fly in order to get his reviews online. Kerry Fried sardonically references "my assistant" to refer to her endless clerical duties. Almost every Amazonian spends half his time each December wrapping packages and manning customer-service lines. "It doesn't matter what you've done before and what you're going to do later," says Moe. "You figure it out as you go along...