Word: adding
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Indomitable on the Senate floor, Helms has also shown an appetite for political risk-taking on the campaign trail. He raised eyebrows during his 1990 race against Democrat Harvey Gantt when he ran an ad showing a pair of white hands crumbling a job application. The famous tag line: "You needed that job and you were the best qualified. But they had to give it to a minority because of a racial quota. Is that really fair?" Helms defeated Gantt, who is black, despite considerable opposition from voters in the state?s liberal Research Triangle area...
Better people than I have decried the ad world for plundering rock's past. Not I; if a luxury carmaker wants to kowtow to my tastes to move product--and tosses a few shekels to a great band--I say, Let it. What's more interesting, and a little disquieting, is what this new kind of hipster marketing says about my generation: not how the market has reshaped us but how we reshaped the market...
...classic one--trying to get too big too fast--that would be repeated ad infinitum by the overfunded dotcoms of the new century. The frantic development diluted the appeal of the Peterman brand and layered new costs onto the company. "This business was highly profitable at $48 million [in sales] a year," Peterman says, "but when we started to push beyond that, it wasn't so profitable." The new merchandise required more buyers and stockers, more inventory and more cash tied up in warehouses. "If I had been really smart, I'd have slashed items and overhead and rolled...
...gubernatorial ticket in 1994 primarily for the Kennedy name. But part of the deal was that the traditionally invisible Lieutenant Governor's office would get a portfolio that included criminal justice and economic development. When they nearly lost their re-election bid in 1998, a last-minute ad campaign starring Kathleen saved them. Internal polls saw their numbers jump 12 points when her name was mentioned...
...folks in front of us are Southern and could have stepped right out of a Marlboro ad; they heckle like pros, and poor Anaheim outfielder Tim Salmon is in just the right spot to hear them talk about his mama. The guys on either side of me decide to join in. “Hey, Salmon, your mom called!” they bellow in unison. “She said you suck...