Posted on 10/12/2010 3:22:27 PM PDT by Bad~Rodeo
According to the Christian Science Monitor, Oakley donated sunglasses – reportedly retailing at $450 – to each of the miners. Oakley alone, according to research done for CNBC from Front Row Analytics, garnered $41 million in equivalent advertising time. And the Chilean government's approval ratings have soared during the multi-million dollar rescue mission.
Chilean President Sebastián Piñera and Mining Minister Laurence Golborne showed how to turn a crisis into an opportunity
Our president would be reminding us constantly on how many lives were saved or created, without himself getting personally involved...
The beauty of watching the live stream was not having to listen to the news media’s talking heads. Everytime I try to watch a rerun or video the talking heads are jabbering so much you can’t get a feel for it all. I wish they’d just shut up and let it unfold.
Thank goodness we the links for streaming without all the unneccesary noise blabbered by the ‘anchors’.
CHI CHI CHI LE LE LE!
Ditto to that. It’s like they’re telling us what we should be thinking and feeling
I think he has a background in business. Running an airline company.
He came to office with the leadership skills from his business background.
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