Word: scared
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...rambunctious royal, PRINCE HARRY reportedly had a marijuana and alcohol problem. Last summer, according to the News of the World tabloid, Prince Charles ordered his younger son to spend a day with hardcore heroin addicts at a South London rehab center. It apparently was a ploy to scare the then 16-year-old Eton student straight; sources at St. James's Palace say it worked and that Harry had experimented with drugs only a few times. But the hard-partying prince also reportedly spent too many late summer nights downing pints at a pub near his dad's country home...
...Suddenly there's a huge surge in demand for e-mail lists," says Purdue University marketing professor Jon Anton. His surveys found that the cost of these lists, which had been sinking early last year, shot up 20% during the month following the start of the anthrax scare. Telemarketers, he says, are seeing a similar spike in business...
Before the anthrax scare, Jupiter predicted that companies would increase their spending on e-mail marketing by 80% in 2001, but that only 3.5% of the new spending would come from direct-mail campaigns. He doesn't expect the anthrax scare to make a permanent dent in those numbers. And even if more poisonous letters emerge in the months ahead, they're not likely to wipe out direct mail. Says Blank: "People are just very attached to paper...
...Direct Mail! Hurt by the anthrax scare, marketers are sending ads via the Internet and through targeted e-mail...
...still been fourteen years since anyone besides Penn or Princeton has won an Ivy crown, but this year, the rest of the league has caused teams to stand and take notice. Brown is the best team in Rhode Island this year after beating URI and Providence. Columbia put a scare into No. 17 UCLA last week. And last Wednesday night, Yale topped Clemson, pushing the Ivies’ record against the ACC this year to a respectable...