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...that companies are eager to renew their marketing efforts, though, they are taking a hard look at the tone and effectiveness of their ads. Many are concluding that the pitches that worked last year will fall on deaf ears. The white-hot decade of conspicuous consumption has cooled. Many accounts are in review because advertisers are casting a wide net in the agency business, searching for new ideas about how to reach consumers who are rejecting trendiness for practicality...
...spring, his family had discovered that his mother had a malignant brain tumor (she died two years ago). Because he anticipated having to return often to California to see her and because he wanted to have summers free to stay at home, he decided not to renew his participation in ROTC. And, he says, "Regardless of the political issues involved, another reason was I didn't really want to commit to the military. It wasn't really what I wanted to be tied down to after college...
...talked to people who have come over from China recently, and they say the situation today isn't any better than a couple years ago. The government will crash anyone showing protest this year," Haiching said. "We need to ask the United States to renew MFN but attach conditions including the release of prisoners, the freedom of speech and assembly...and a stop to the harassment of students...
College administrators are carefully monitoring the situation, and any such drastic change will probably prompt an appeal to Congress to pass legislation permitting them to renew the overlap process...
...many Harvard players a trip back to Garden City, N.Y. is more than another game in a busy April schedule--it is a trip home, a time to meet old friends and, more importantly, renew old rivalries...