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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Have you seen the ubiquitous TV commercial for the hotel chain where, the ad suggests, every employee is prepared to give a guest detailed strategic advice and encouragement for a forthcoming business meeting? Unlike a more traditional advertising claim--that, say, an angel flies out of a can of cleanser to banish grime with her magic wand--this hotel's claim is not inherently or obviously metaphorical. Yet it's clearly not true--a point that probably didn't even occur to the producers of the ad or 99% of its viewers. The deception is not on purpose...
...mean conquering force. Although Levin insisted that the new headquarters be in New York, the cost was the defenestration of much of Time Warner's corporate staff. Many of the top executive roles have gone to AOL. Middle managers from the two companies have clashed over, among other things, ad-sales strategies and Time Warner's compensation structure. "A lot of [AOL executives] came in thinking they were going to tell us how to run our businesses," says a top Time Warner executive, a veteran of that company's internecine wars. "Then they began to realize that movies, publishing...
...meet the stratospheric financial goals Case and Levin set a year ago, when they promised Wall Street that in 2001 the company's operating profit would grow by 30%, to $11 billion. Despite the Internet downturn, AOL's growth this year is still an impressive 23% (the company is adding about 1 million subscribers every six weeks). But Time Warner's growth is beginning to slow. The movie and music businesses are troubled. And if economic doldrums hit next year, ad revenues are likely to take a hit. "They've clearly made some promises that don't leave...
There's some good humor in the truths that he overhears, maybe even some sympathetic insights into the inner life of a sex he has exploited as God's hunky gift to womankind. Certainly it helps him ingratiate himself with Darcy Maguire (Hunt), the new creative director at his ad agency...
...spring mornings and secret souls, are no better, flattening Jane's spirit as firmly as any of her Victorian taskmasters. In the novel, for example, Jane makes a momentous decision, at age 18, to leave her stultifying school and strike out on her own. She writes up a newspaper ad seeking employment, trudges miles to town in the rain to deliver it, then treks back a week later to pick up the one and only reply. It's a quietly stirring proto-feminist sequence, but here it is transmuted into the banal musical yearnings of a romantic teenage girl: "Over...