Word: consumerization
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CARS WITH A CHECKERED PAST The National Automobile Dealers Association is pushing for a federal law regulating the sale of rebuilt wrecked cars. Like a lot of special-interest legislation, the National Salvage Motor Vehicle Consumer Protection Act, as it's called, sounds good. No one is likely to argue...
Consider consumer-products kingpin Procter & Gamble, which a couple of weeks ago stuck its nose into a three-way pharmaceutical fray involving Pfizer, Warner Lambert and American Home Products--hoping to come away with Warner Lambert and its cholesterol-reducing wonder drug Lipitor. P&G, maker of Cascade and Crest...
After his parents fell victim to mass consumer culture, four-month-old Zachary Jones suffocated on a Pokemon ball from a Burger King kids' meal. He has been dead for
Alan Greenspan shouldn't be surprised if perfect strangers insist on buying him a beer. Widely credited with being the architect of the most sustained growth cycle in the history of the U.S. economy, the Federal Reserve chairman on Tuesday welcomed the record-making 107th month of robust economic health...
"I had a workman here the other day," Laybourne says at her office in Oxygen's loftlike downtown Manhattan headquarters (very new-media-start-up, very exposed-pipes-and-brick). "He said, 'Hmmm. Network for women. What're you going to do, fashion?'" Not exactly. When the channel launches on...