Word: say
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...least one brand guru is also shaking his head in disbelief. "It's a complete and total waste of time and resources," says Rob Frankel, who has consulted for companies like Disney, Burger King and Sony. "Nobody has a clue as to why they did this or what the name means. If you are going to rebrand, it should communicate a strategy. Now you'll just say, 'The old Comcast guys f_____ up my cable.' " (See TIME's Tech Buyer's Guide...
...just name it, say, Infinity? Lame, yes. But at least that would eliminate the X's giving folks the giggles. "This is a long-term investment," says Watson. "We're going to come out with a strong advertising campaign in a week, and it will be something we're going to build on. Our job is to make sure that people get what this stands for: more choice, more control than anybody else in the marketplace. So we're going to build on this. And people who aren't there right away, we're going to try to win them...
...Bashar al-Assad. Syria's much feared state-security apparatus keeps close tabs on everyone entering and leaving the embassy; it also helps keeps the embassy relatively safe from the occasional jihadist sneak attack. In turn, living close to the Americans may help Assad sleep more easily at night, say Damascene wags, because the proximity of the embassy would make the U.S. and Israel think twice about ever trying to dropping a bomb on him. (See pictures of daily life in Iraq...
...Edwin Dyer, was abducted while traveling in Niger in January 2009, and in exchange for his freedom, AQIM demanded $14 million and the release of a radical cleric being held in a British prison. When Britain balked, Dyer was executed less than 24 hours later. Some analysts now say that the demands could have been a ruse and that AQIM had been planning to kill Dyer all along. (See pictures of the U.S. troops in Iraq._...
AQIM has also carefully constructed religious and ideological arguments for its actions so local Muslim populations see kidnapping as part of the group's holy work, analysts say. "It's essential that jihadists believe they can credibly justify horrible criminal acts as righteous before they undertake them to both themselves, the victims and the world," says another French counter-terrorism official. "That has allowed AQIM to embrace something it had regarded as the lowly work of vulgar crooks and Mafia types before...