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Despite the apparent resolution, students like Markman and Reid said they still plan to switch to a new service...

Author: By Evan M. Vittor, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: AT&T Service Outages Irk Students | 3/11/2004 | See Source »

...annoying in the sense that when I was on the phone with somebody, I would have to call them back 10 times because I kept getting cut off,” said Markman. “I am displeased with AT&T, and I would like to switch to another service...

Author: By Evan M. Vittor, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: AT&T Service Outages Irk Students | 3/11/2004 | See Source »

...union also asked Iscayau to campaign for Dean in New Jersey, so she spent three days last October canvassing neighborhoods with Spanish speakers. She proudly declares that she convinced three families to switch their registration from Republican to Democrat...

Author: By May Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: For Janitor, Politics Is a Way of Living | 3/10/2004 | See Source »

...Barbara Ehrenreich went undercover to do a series of low-wage jobs on the theory that the best way to write about life at $6 an hour is to live it. If only Ehrenreich had pitched the idea to TLC. Instead, the network produced the more capitalist-friendly job-switch series Now Who's Boss? (Mondays, 10 p.m. E.T.), in which CEOs do drudge work at their own companies, critiqued by their employees. For Tisch, flipping omelets and checking in customers was not just educational but good advertising as well. "We're not as large as our competitors," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Reality TV Goes To Work | 3/8/2004 | See Source »

...playbook, which could be risky in today's politically charged market. When the shoemaker originally balked at changing work conditions at its contracted factories, a consumer backlash damaged the company's reputation and sales. Humanitarian groups such as Oxfam and Co-op America are now asking big wholesalers to switch at least 2% of their purchases to Fair Trade. And last November, Catholic Relief Services launched an effort to persuade the nation's 65 million Catholics "to live out their faith" by drinking Fair Trade brew. They are joining Lutheran, Methodist and Presbyterian groups organized by Equal Exchange, a Massachusetts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trade: The Coffee Clash | 3/8/2004 | See Source »

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