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...absolutely. The leadership on both sides are really whipping this thing up. It?s sort of a test of leadership on both sides: For Gephardt, this has potential to really vault him into the national spotlight - and position him for a White House run, if that?s what he wants...
...sense, placements are just like commercials: they spotlight a product in an idealized, favorable setting. But they raise other questions. Virtual placements could alter past producers' creative work willy-nilly. As for physical placements, producers do disclose their sponsors--but there's disclosure and then there's disclosure. Viewers know commercials are scripted. But reality shows purport to show actual events --how a player felt, how a product performed. What if unscripted events don't follow the advertiser's script? Contestants on Fox's Murder drive Jeeps. If one of them stalls, does Fox cut the scene? "No," says executive...
...Coming in the wake of other high-profile layoffs in France - notably Marks and Spencer's pullout, eliminating 1,700 jobs, and Danone's shedding of 570 jobs - the AOM debacle casts an unflattering spotlight on Seillière at a critical moment. It cannot help weakening his sputtering efforts to reform the country's social schemes. And before the AOM saga is over, the baron may find that he has lost something far more valuable than a $40 million investment: his reputation as a phenomenally successful entrepreneur. Lady Luck can be a fickle partner indeed...
...fingers. "Fifty percent of the growers who sell to the coop are going to disappear," says Laurent Vaillé, owner of La Grange des Pères. "Mondavi was their last chance, the only thing that was going to help the coop stay alive. Mondavi would have shone a spotlight on Languedoc throughout the Anglo-Saxon world. There's no one else in the region who could do that." By opting for splendid isolation, Aniane may have left a golden opportunity to die upon the vine...
...nearby Kalamazoo sent Jack of her class belting out "Apple Blossom," a song from De Stijl. "I cried the first time I saw this," Jack mutters as he watches it. Somehow, it's easy to believe him. And it's hard to begrudge him his right to nudge the spotlight toward his band, and away from his private life, by any means available. Even at the expense of the truth...