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Sales of tobacco pipes are booming; the pipe industry hopes to capitalize on--and supplant--cigar chic, but the Wall Street Journal says skeptics still consider pipes "tweedy and prissy."
For example, some years ago the xerography pioneer took out half-page ads in the New York Times to remind us that Xerox is a trademark to be used only as a proper noun, as in Xerox machine , or a proper adjective, as in Xerox copy . In either case, warned the ad, we must capitalize Xerox . Despite such entreaties, the word xerox seems to have become generic, if not according to the courts, then at least according to current American usage, where it occurs freely as noun, adjective, and even verb, with or without capitalization.
In addition, other management improvement efforts, such as implementation of the CFO Act, and FMFIA [Federal Managers' Financial Integrity Act], customer service initiatives, reengineering, and Total Quality Management, etc., should be incorporated into the GPRA framework to capitalize on the synergy and availability of key information and to improve responsiveness to customers and other stakeholders.
Therefore, the Board believes that attempting to capitalize and depreciate stewardship PP&E is not warranted.
They all get cast, thanks to Hollywood's determination to capitalize on the baby boomlet by churning out cookie-cutter teen dramas.