Yeah, there's no way I would ever get punished in my regular job if I ever called one of my superiors a "cockmaster". No sir. The dental school's behavior is complete out of line with corporate behavior.
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The GP was correct. Around 1987 or '88, B&D brought out a line of tools intended to compete with Milwaukee, Porter-Cable, et. al., in the pro end of the market. The line was called "Black & Decker Industrial". It did not do well because of B&D's poor brand image, so B&D resurrected a brand they acquired some years before, DeWalt, and stuck it on re-colored versions of the B&D Industrial tools. They also experimented with another brand they owned, Elu. For a while around '89-'90, some tools, especially routers, could be had with any of the three names. The versions were identical other than colors and logos.
To bring this back on-topic, AOL still has a strong base of loyal users for whom the AOL experience is synonymous with the Internet. The biggest current problem is that they are not able to recruit new users, partly because of AOL's bed rep. Some judicious fixes to the user experience and a rebranding could work wonders. The techno-literates would still avoid a walled-garden Internet, of course.
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Yeah, there's no way I would ever get punished in my regular job if I ever called one of my superiors a "cockmaster". No sir. The dental school's behavior is complete out of line with corporate behavior. WFG
The GP was correct. Around 1987 or '88, B&D brought out a line of tools intended to compete with Milwaukee, Porter-Cable, et. al., in the pro end of the market. The line was called "Black & Decker Industrial". It did not do well because of B&D's poor brand image, so B&D resurrected a brand they acquired some years before, DeWalt, and stuck it on re-colored versions of the B&D Industrial tools. They also experimented with another brand they owned, Elu. For a while around '89-'90, some tools, especially routers, could be had with any of the three names. The versions were identical other than colors and logos.
To bring this back on-topic, AOL still has a strong base of loyal users for whom the AOL experience is synonymous with the Internet. The biggest current problem is that they are not able to recruit new users, partly because of AOL's bed rep. Some judicious fixes to the user experience and a rebranding could work wonders. The techno-literates would still avoid a walled-garden Internet, of course.