People with SAD experience a
strong dismal reaction to the short days, long nights and presence of
animated snowmen. These winter blues strike one in every fifteen people
at last count (another count is taking place as this is written).
Tim Halloran of Brand
Illumination presents his firm's take on the best and worst brands
of the year 2008. "Brand Winners" include Wal-Mart and Barack Obama;
"Losers" include The World Series, Starbucks and Microsoft.
Thirty billion dollars is a huge
amount of money, but it translates into less than $100 per US person - a
small price that we should all be willing to pay to give the automobile
industry time to restructure itself and to save a few million jobs.
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