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...small thing to rebrand a national icon - particularly if you're rebranding it as a meat product. A few years ago, Australia's food industry was trying to figure out how to get more people to think of the kangaroo, which is part of the country's official coat of arms, as something that is edible rather than adorable. In 2005, the trade magazine Food Companion International ran a global competition for suggestions on what to call kangaroo meat. The magazine received 2,700 entries from more than 40 nations. Proposed names included rooviande, kangasaurus, jumpmeat and MOM (meat...
...must turn back advances made by cable operators and invest billions of dollars in network upgrades. Nowhere is this more urgent than in the province of Quebec, where Videotron Ltd. has coaxed 850,000 customers away from Bell Canada since launching its cable phone service four years ago. That figure is expected to top 1 million in 2009, driven in part by Videotron's ability to attract subscribers to a discounted triple-play bundle that combines voice, cable and high-speed Internet. "We're prepared to fight for new business," says Robert Depatie, president and CEO of Videotron, a division...
...they know it obsolete. The biggest threat to the old order is probably Skype Ltd. of Luxembourg, which has attracted more than 405 million customers since it launched software in 2003 that allows free long-distance calls over the Internet. eBay paid $2.6 billion for Skype four years ago because it believed the free voice operator would mesh well with its auction business. It didn't. Now eBay is spinning off Skype in an IPO, after taking a $1.4 billion write-down. Still, Skype is profitable and growing, and it rolled out an Apple iPhone app, much to the consternation...
...still working. Our home is paid for. We keep current with our bills, make payments on one vehicle and pay our credit card in full each month. Where is the problem? Health care is simply out of control. I was taken to the emergency room a few weeks ago. Ambulance bill: $959. Hospital bill: $13,830. Follow-up with a personal physician and specialist: $463. Total: $15,252 for a six-hour, non-life-threatening situation that was diagnosed incorrectly in the emergency room. No wonder the country is in trouble. Frugality cannot cure this type of debt, and common...
...balls outside the strike zone, as well as too far into it. Eventually the team’s bats returned to Earth and its flaws proved too numerous. The Crimson blew any chance it had at the Ivy League title by losing four-straight games to Brown two weekends ago. But Harvard proved its resilient character this past weekend against the Rolfe Division’s best. The Crimson bounced back from Game 1 blowouts to beat Dartmouth in the nightcaps of each doubleheader. The Crimson capped off its season by coming back from a 7-0 deficit to beat...