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...campaign was about legacy, "We've been selling great-fitting jeans for 40 years." Then I walked into an Express store. The music was up-tempo and hipper. It wasn't edgy, but there was a lot more bass. Instead of legacy sales, it all had to do with trend. The layered look is very in right now; by selling things that go together there is a much greater chance that a store is going to sell you more than one item...
...October. By contrast, both the newly profitable Ford Motor Co., and General Motors Corp., which had followed Chrysler into bankruptcy, reported modest sales increases during what was the best month for new cars sales in more than year. "The industry showed signs of improvement this month, which is a trend we expect to continue for the remainder of the year," said Fred Diaz, the top executive in Chrysler Sales Organization, as he scrambled to put a good face on his company's collapsing sales. (See pictures of American muscle cars in movies...
...turnout of 14,944 voters–an increase of nearly 1,500 votes from the last election—represents an anomaly to the recent trend of declining voter participation...
...That campaign looked to be winning for much of Tuesday evening. Looking at early vote totals, CNN legal-affairs analyst Jeffrey Toobin said if the trend held, the vote in Maine would have enormous implications in favor of gay marriage elsewhere. "That's a big cultural change," he said. "Every time voters have spoken - every time - they have rejected gay marriage. But this shows the country is changing...
...Jesus Christ is probably the most famous martyr in history. Why has this trend not resonated as strongly among Christians as it has among Muslims? Early Christian communities were very happy to self-destruct but after the Enlightenment there was an increasing separation between religious spheres of action and political spheres of action, whereas in Islam, religious dynamics are still very much intertwined with political agendas. In Christianity, you don't really see what you see in Islam where the [political] martyr is a Christ-like figure. In Christian communities, if you act like a Christ-like figure to solve...