Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...come from such things as the toll highway leading from Hongqiao international airport to Shanghai's inner ring road, and the North-to-South Elevated Expressway cutting through downtown. About 20% to 30% will derive from a joint venture that makes chassis, front suspensions, rear axles, steering and shock absorbers for the Shanghai Volkswagen Automotive Co. The third revenue stream is produced by Nanyang Bros. Tobacco Co., a Hong Kong manufacturer of the popular Double Happiness cigarettes, which last year had sales of $141.6 million. Responsible for as much as 80% of SIHL profits in 1996, Double Happiness will contribute...
...million members, almost six times as many as its nearest competitor, the Microsoft Network. But while the news was big, AOL had no idea the coup would so clearly signal that the company had finally arrived. As congratulatory calls poured in, AOL employees shared a moment of collective corporate shock: "Well, I guess Steve was right...
...still loves a good crisis, which is a trait that shrewd marketers have begun to tap. John Ferrell, the president of FerrellCalvillo Communications, notes that traditional feel-good campaigns for financial services have failed to nudge boomers into saving for retirement. So his New York City agency created humorous shock-tactic spots for the Alliance Capital Management group, a giant investment firm with nearly $200 billion under management. In one, a husband tells his startled wife they can't retire because they haven't saved any money and advises her to earn some by mowing neighborhood lawns. The voice-over...
...best asset of "In & Out" is Kline, who strikes the right note as the sweetly befuddled English teacher who doesn't quite know how to react once he passes out of the initial shock and denial phase. He isn't given much of a chance to do any really meaningful soul-searching-but he comes brilliantly into his own in his dance scenes, throwing the "Real men don't dance" dictum gleefully to the winds and proving once again that there's nothing sexier, for straights and gays alike, than a good dancer. Tom Selleck also scores high marks...
...blown up or simplified as necessary, we still can't wait to watch what happens when the upright Exley locks horns with Smith or goes to talk with prettyboy Vincennes whom we've up to then only known from more public appearances. People make mistakes or people shock us with coldly inhuman decisions, but things never subside into a predictable formula...