Word: though
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...when he talks about Gore's "slash-and-burn politics": "Mr. Gore, I'm not going to let you get away with it," he said last week. "We're not going to be fooled by somebody who says one thing and absolutely does something else." It is as though Gore has become a stalking-horse for all those elitist liberals, the pantywaists and special pleaders who whine about rights and fairness from the comfort of their ivory towers and whom Bush has reviled since his days at Yale. And Bush has no time for liberal guilt, doesn't believe...
...games, including the world's best seller, Age of Empires II. But the fact is, there's a world of difference between PC games and console games. Because the technologies are so far apart, you won't be able to play PC games on your X-box--even though it runs on something similar to Windows 2000. And as X-box manager J. Allard concedes, PC gamers and console gamers are quite different animals: "Microsoft gets the den. What Microsoft doesn't get is the living room...
...thing the brands can't offer, though, is growth. Most will be hard pressed to increase sales more than 5%. Sales at Gillette, considered an innovator, actually fell 2% last year, and the company is considering unloading its underperforming stationery and Braun household-appliance divisions. In Battle Creek, Mich., Tony the Tiger isn't feeling too great. In the face of lower-priced store brands, more nimble competitors and a decline in demand, Kellogg's core cereal business has got pretty soggy. Coke, which created more shareholder value in the past decade than most other companies, has so far spent...
Assembling a sexy portfolio of products, though, is only half the brand battle. Manufacturers still have to rely on retailers, which have gained the upper hand in the past few years as they've consolidated. "There's been a clear shift in loyalty from the manufacturer to the retailer," says Burt Flickinger III, managing director of Reach Marketing. Giants like Wal-Mart, Target and Kroger now largely dictate the terms. At the same time, they've devoted more resources to popular in-house store brands, which now account for 20% of sales. Wal-Mart chairman David Glass, a national brand...
...White students and parents are discovering what African Americans have known for decades--many historically black colleges offer a quality education for about half the price of comparable mainstream schools. Some black students and administrators welcome the new diversity. Others, though, argue that schools that are now predominantly white should no longer receive federal funds for their "unique mission" of educating African Americans. Most historically black colleges were founded before 1965, when African Americans were shut out of most predominantly white institutions. But today some historically black colleges with a majority of white students and faculty are at an important...