With all the real privacy controversies Google is facing these days, it seems silly that Burson-Marsteller and its client would need to drum up one of questionable legitimacy.

FORBES: PR Firm's Attack On Google Goes Very, Very Badly

One of the most important issues facing organized labor these days is issue number two on the ballot on Ohio, comes up November 8th.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

The big strategic problem facing media companies these days is how to move their products online while preserving margins without swapping analogue dollars for digital pennies, as Jeff Zucker, NBC Universal's boss, once put it.

ECONOMIST: Media

Facing a similar situation in these days, the US is now calling upon China to take similar measures.

FORBES: US Currency Bill: Will China Yield?

These days, Rotterdam is facing another challenge that the city hopes innovative architecture will be able to remedy.

BBC: Rotterdam's downtown revival

Put it another way, it's hard work these days trying to sell things to people they don't strictly need - as any "consumer facing" company will unhappily confirm.

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