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...phenomenon is strongest in Britain. Blade estimates 2000 spending at $120 million, up from a mere $24 million in 1996, and predicts sales will rise by 30% this year. Elsewhere in Europe, Global outdoor specialist Poster Publicity pegs the total value of the German and French markets at $178.5 million and growing. The Media Vehicle last year opened an office in the Netherlands. And Megaposter, the German company that draped the Brandenburg Gate in advertising, recently began operations in seven other countries as part of a pan-European push. Markets are emerging in Eastern Europe as well. Hungarian mobile operator...
...problem—the Cubans don’t like the movie either. Said the Cuban state news agency about Thirteen Days, “The North Americans are presented yet again as the saviors of the world, while Cuba appears in the film, according to some critics, as mere decoration in a sugary film of pure Hollywood style. With more dialogue than action, the film tends to send the spectator to sleep.” Looking back, the Elian Gonzalez brouhaha would have been a lot simpler if we had just traded Kevin for Elian. (Wouldn?...
...America had such a force at its disposal, it would rarely need to use it—its mere presence would be a remarkable deterrent against would-be aggressors. In last Sunday’s New York Times, Richard Holbrooke, the former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, explained that the renewed violence in Bosnia is a “reaction” to “a new administration perceived as more passive in the Balkans.” Militants become belligerent when they know that they will get away with it. Knowing that U.S. peacekeepers were ready...
...must ratify treaties, voted 95 to 0 that no global-warming pact that came before it would be okayed unless it treated developed and developing countries equally. Such a repudiation is one more argument the Administration is using to pull the plug on Kyoto--though it was more than mere conscience that was probably driving the Senate. One of the resolution's sponsors was Democratic Senator Robert Byrd, from the coal-producing state of West Virginia...
...stock to plunge more than 60% in a single day. Throw in the tech sell-off, and last week MicroStrategy shares that had traded for more than $225 a year ago closed at $2.88. Saylor's personal holdings, which had stood at $9.9 billion, are now worth a mere $126 million...