Word: openly
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...company has seen its market share drop precipitously in recent years, as competition from Russia intensifies. The company also announced Wednesday that it will flood the market with some of the millions of diamonds it has traditionally hoarded to keep prices high, suggesting that De Beers is hurting. Throwing open the vaults may bring prices down in the short term, but it could hurt the competition a lot more than the industry giant. And the company hopes to keep the market alive by spending $170 million on advertising this year alone...
...enchanted evening, your prince charming was supposed to drop to his knees at your feet, open a velvet box, and slip a diamond on your left hand as you choke back happy tears and mentally calculate how quickly you could find a phone. These days, thanks to a very millennial mix of political correctness, collective guilt and obsessive individuality, it's not quite so simple...
...congressional GOP is standing fast behind the broadcast companies (and their lobbyists), defending their position with the claim that the smaller stations' signals could interfere with existing channels. The nascent broadcasters and the FCC, which proposed the move in part to open the airwaves to more voices, hit back that the radio companies' concerns have more to do with worries about audience (and advertising) share than any technical issues. And while some conservative Republicans have expressed remorse that their position will undercut grassroots religious programming, the message in their perfunctory hand-wringing is abundantly clear: In this case, at least...
...next microchip or the launch of a new dotcom? "We can't worry about what's going on on Wall Street," says Mayor James Wilson. "We've got to worry about what's going on on Main Street." And right now, Cairo's Main Street is like an open scar left over from the day in 1967 when a black man was found hanged in jail and the town blew wide open. At the turn of the century, Cairo had vied with Chicago and St. Louis to be the commercial capital of the Midwest, with money pouring...
...anybody?" Thames produced the Mental Health Reform Act of 1997, which, along with subsequent legislation, promised to create seven regional crisis-intervention centers that would keep the mentally ill out of jail, closer to their relatives and not constantly on the road to Whitfield. But these probably won't open for two years. The new laws require communities to take more responsibility for improving their mental-health care, but there's no state budget...