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| 21 | I agree with you 100%. But I'm fudging tired of America feeling like it has to take the lead with everything. It's such a demented, distorted image of the average American, who I feel ironically should have an image that boasts - reeks - of humanitarianism instead. Mix all that in with whatever hidden agenda our own elected government can't trust us to know (for example, oh say, why we're really over there, ready to bomb the crap out of lives - again), and you've got yourself a large crowd of demonstrators trying to block your convoys. More so, they're our trucks and our planes and ammo. I sure wish there was a more effective way to manage what our government decided to do with them. | Which of the following best expresses your feelings about the upcoming war with Iraq? |
| 22 | I think his staff is approving him. They just narrowed the amount of poll takers - to cut budgets you know. | Which of the following best expresses your feelings about the upcoming war with Iraq? |
| 23 | I've noticed how you do that, which is mature, and a very tactful way to qualify surveys. I even started to practice it myself - I mean, who wants 14 "nitpicks" all pointing out how you don't need a colon after "Other:"? But...there's the issue - well, okay, problem - with my long-winded ways, which, until I'm cured, must be respected. I was telling someone here recently how I've been improving on my overuse of verbiage by attending Words Anonymous. ("Hi, my name is NthenSome, and I use way way WAY too many words to express what I simply should just come right out and say to begin with instead of --" "Yes yes YEEEeess, and thank you, NthenSome - you may be seated now.") Haha. | wees? |
| 24 | Aren't you just the nicest...? | wees? |
| 25 | I was out for a giggle from some members for this, maybe they'd throw some out there they thought would be funny. (Myself, I use "wks" sometimes - What Kate Said, haha.) MONKEEEEEEE really doesn't live up to its purpose anymore. Look at the serious survey-like answers I got from everyone. I'd have been more satisfied with a few that just said "ha ha I get it so funny forgot to laugh, ok moving on now". Haha! | wees? |
| 26 | My family made the move as a geographical solution to the joblessness...from Pennsylvania, to Texas, when my father was laid off from UPS back in the mid-seventies. I was eight, traveling with three bratty sisters, a disgruntled father and a mother who was being blamed for the entire upheaval and shift of our life (not to be discovered until recent years that my father just couldn't - maybe wouldn't find a job). This is not an advisable move for a family of six, in which the childrens' only version of what a "rodeo" represented was a street in some Richie-Rich town (as rodeos were soon to become the only highlight of the year in our new hometown), and who never knew that they actually killed live chickens (some new roommates of ours for a while, I remember) - for "Chicken Delight"! From Penn State to The Big T - what a contrast. Driving passed that sign - "bigger n' life, I reckon it were! sure as am sittin' here!" - when that sign screamed "WELCOME TO TEXAS!" at me, I made up my mind at eight years old that I would live in the largest city I could possibly find. (Currently, LA.) | Have you and/or your family ever moved to a different location primarily due to the local unemployment circumstances? |
| 27 | I can't really tell. It's too...obscure, I guess, to describe. | Which obscure music do you listen to? |
| 28 | You said, "I never know how well known the music I listen to is, because I don't pay any attention to popular culture." I think that classifies all the music you listen to as "obscure"! My answer was similar - too obscure to tell, ha. | Which obscure music do you listen to? |
| 29 | Pretty interesting story with all its dynamics. My take on it is that Nestle should indeed have sought this lawsuit. Since it is publicly owned, the livelihood of the company - even its existence - has more placed at stake with the dissatisfaction of its own shareholders than any one other source or occurrence, regardless. Many mid-sized companies falter from their first, deadly problems that begin in shareholders' meetings - for personalities, egos, inheritance squabbles. If these things just never lose their momentum and if the quarrels start with powerful holders, the entire company can be doomed. (Deaths in a committee are known to bring companies down, for example.) So as far as Nestle is concerned I just see the CEO doing what he knows the company requires him to do. There's an interesting twist when "Nestle" insisted on the entire 6M rather than settle for the 1.5M though. I wish I could know who at Nestle is being quoted saying the 4.5M above the settlement offer is "based on principle". The shareholders should be giving that person a public beating! For that one statement, Nestle should lose the case and have to settle for 1.5M. Anyone is justified in seeking out justice - even financial conglomerates against a starving country that performed badly in its business. But when a spokesperson speaks for the actions of a huge company stating that they're forcing their hand simply "on principle" (especially under these circumstances), they're screwed in front of any judge! Big mistake there. | What do you think Nestlé should do in this situation? |
| 30 | If I were the newly hired CEO brought in to clean this up, I would (well, first dismiss the loose lipped idiot) revitalize the legal team and tell them to keep pressing for the 6M, hold press conferences wherever I could to drum up "the other side of the story" - which I am looking around to know more about. Seems the people of Ethiopia are really getting the bad (and empty) hands dealt by their own government to me. I'd prompt it so that the issues with the law suit and all the image issues take care of themselves: I'd place the pressure back on the shareholders of the company themselves by publicly stating that I was planning to address the notion of donating 1/2 of the amount recovered (above and beyond the 1.5M) as relief to Ethiopia's drought woes. Now the shareholders will have to address a country to release these funds to relieve its own people. Plus the company maintains a healthy image, strong in its recovery of the funds, and good in its relations with everyone. NEXT! (haha) | What do you think Nestlé should do in this situation? |
