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...justify our business," says Thompson. McDonald's is just trying to grow, he says, by capturing share in a high-margin sector - specialty coffee - that has shown consistent growth. Whether you believe the company's motives or not, the bottom line is that McDonald's seems positioned for success...
...only is the number of users impressive, but the program seems to achieve its intended goal: according to Shah, a 200-point increase in total score is typical over the length of the course. THE “MATH” TO SUCCESSOne of INeedAPencil.com’s success stories is Evan M. Kendall, currently a junior at Sharon High School in Sharon, Mass. He discovered the Web site through a Facebook group. “It was a really helpful tool,” he says. “It was free, it was at my convenience...
...Unfortunately, most of Obama’s strategies have been fostering the opposite sentiments. His permanent campaign encourages suspicion in place of trust, partisanship in place of unity, hopelessness in place of change. Ironically, the continuation of the policies that ensured his campaign’s success has forced Obama to abandon many of the promises he made during that campaign in the first place. The administration that promised to bring change to America has instead brought only more division—a division that may ensure Obama’s election in 2012 but will sacrifice his message...
...Other areas of government have had success on a far greater scale. The CDC, which began experimenting with social media three years ago, has created a raft of YouTube videos, podcasts, webpage widgets and Twitter-size feeds to inform the public about the latest news on the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu. Between April 22 and May 4, the CDC received 1.2 million views of flu-related material on YouTube and 46.6 million Web-page views, and attracted 99,000 followers on its Twitter feed "CDCemergency," which provides breaking updates on health issues. Janice Nall...
...authorities desperately needed infusions of cash. Richard Holbrooke, Obama's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday that Zardari has the Administration's total backing. "He should be treated as the leader of a country who vitally needs our support and whose success is vitally related to American interests," Holbrooke said. Asked whether the Obama Administration had any contingency plans for the possible collapse of the Zardari government, Holbrooke said even discussing such a plan would "undercut his legitimacy." (See pictures of the Taliban's advance into Buner...