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...sampling devices may lack human warmth, but they never tire. Says Nabisco's Allan Falvey: "Most sampling programs last a couple of days and reach only 15% of a store's customers. These machines are in a store 24 hours a day." Nabisco says that when new products have been promoted by Samplers, sales doubled within a month...
...They just come in, look around and walk out," observes Ingrid Mundel, a clerk at AMA, the main clothing store in Furstenwalde, a tire-making town of 35,000 citizens located 22 miles from the Polish border. "People are checking prices before they buy. Right now business is very slow...
...house and the bottom there are employees who need more training, as well as managers who have to do a better job of evaluating people. Since the Alaska spill, we have had every affiliate worldwide go back and review their practices, but as they say in the tire business, you've got to look at where the rubber hits the road. What's motivating these people on the docks and ships? Are they upset? Is there too much pressure? Maybe we'll have industrial psychologists talk to them. We're not rushing people when they're moving oil. We want...
...took several hours for me to realize that I was still standing on the planet earth," says photographer Anthony Suau, recalling his trip last month to Copsa Mica. "It was as if a gigantic bottle of ink had spilled on the town." Copsa Mica's chief industry is tire production, and 24 hours a day its smokestacks heave out noxious, coal-based clouds that cake faces and fingers, cars and houses, grass and trees with endless soot...
Fandom is akin to love. When one partner in this transaction turns brazenly mercenary, something less savory develops. Baseball, as its devotees never tire of arguing, is America, writ small but indelibly on green grass between white lines. When the current tawdry spectacle moves out of hotel rooms and onto diamonds, the breakthrough should prompt not only cheers but also some sadness that the springtime rite of innocence and rejuvenation has been sullied by avarice and bad blood...