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...Fereshteh Street, one of Tehran's high-end thoroughfares and a cruising route for the young. The 70-year-old cleric's grinning face was plastered on a new-model Mercedes-Benz, and dandyish young men and pretty young women in snug, bright tunics leaped into traffic to slap stickers on passing cars. Some drivers swerved to avoid them, with expressions that seemed to say, This is all a lie. Others stared, as if they were taking in a strange exhibit at the zoo. You can see the uncertainty on their faces, as they drive into the night, chased...
...bring peace," Sharon replied. That was enough for Adler to work with. He and a team of Sharon advisers, including p.r. man Eyal Arad and U.S.-based political strategist Arthur Finkelstein, focused the campaign not on the hawkish-sounding theme of security but on peace. They produced a bumper sticker--ONLY SHARON CAN BRING PEACE (it kind of rhymes in Hebrew)--and TV ads with soft music showed Sharon strolling the fields on his farm and hugging his granddaughter. There were only a few references to the security background that, Adler believed, established Sharon as the best man to face...
Inflation is back. It's official, and you can blame costlier gasoline and other fuels. But make no mistake: the tab for common services like a hotel stay and garbage removal are jumping too, as is the sticker price on packaged foods and many other household items. Companies are finding that they can pass on part of their soaring raw-material costs...
...pocket costs for cars and computers are understated. Last year the average suggested sticker price for a passenger car rose $467, reports the Department of Labor. But because of improved brake, air-bag and theft-protection technology, which made cars more valuable, an increase of only $386 was built into the CPI in an effort to measure "constant quality," says Patrick Jackman, senior economist at Labor...
...looking around the green room, artifacts of Gonzalez’s multi-instrumental finesse suddenly uncovered themselves. A guitar sat on the bench next to the artist; an old Casio was propped up against the wall; the mixer case flashed an M83 sticker...