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...more recent times, the Detroit behemoths have begun to gobble up foreign automakers, notably Volvo and Saab, with younger demographics and better brand images, and some of America's most famous brand names, such as Plymouth and Oldsmobile, have begun to feel the pinch as the companies seek to cut marketing and advertising costs by focusing on brands with a more youthful image. Oldsmobile, with sagging sales throughout the decade despite many attempts at a spruce-up, reportedly remains within earshot of the GM scrap heap, and Ford's recent acquisitions of Volvo and Jaguar could threaten the longevity...
...money from running advertising banners on its Web site alongside the lecture notes, which are free to view. Regardless of the legal status of the endeavor, it is unethical for outside corporations to make money off the presentations of Harvard professors, and we find it more concerning that students seek to profit from the professors' academic work...
June Erlick, the publications director at DRCLAS, said she became profoundly aware of the restrictions on the press in Colombia when her published interviews of author and journalist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, caused him to seek asylum in Mexico because of death threats...
...expulsions underline the Jewish state's concern that fundamentalist Christians may seek to provoke acts of violence to speed the return of Christ at the dawning of the millennium. And there's some basis to that fear. While the millennium itself means little to mainstream Judaism or Islam, a number of evangelical Christians interpret biblical prophecies to mean that the Messiah's return must begin with an apocalyptic final conflict that begins in the Holy City. Israeli leaders are all too aware that anyone who wishes to provoke such a conflict need simply attack the Islamic holy sites...
...Meier. Even more alarming for the Kremlin is the fact that Washington is casting the conflict in terms quite different from Russia's. While Moscow describes it simply as a "police action against terrorism," President Clinton Thursday referred to Chechnya as instance of ethnic conflict and urged Russia to seek a negotiated solution. So while Putin may be winning the war at home, he's in increasing danger of losing it abroad...