Harriet Sealey, from the environmental health department, said she was "very concerned" about the allegations.

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Mrs Sealey told the court they had been taking photos of Mrs Yates' "picturesque" Riverside Cottage while out walking on 2 January.

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Trader Joe's offers many fewer products than other supermarkets (about 4, 000 items instead of 40, 000, according to Peter Sealey of the Sausalito Group).

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Still, says Sealey, Hollywood movies continue to have a global impact.

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Mrs Sealey was unable to say whether any of the pictures were of the man she saw on 2 January, but Mrs Probert identified a picture of Farrow.

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"Coke has had essentially a dull decade, " sighs Peter Sealey.

FORBES: Gone Flat

"Coke has had essentially a dull decade, " says Peter Sealey.

FORBES: Gone flat

Peter Sealey, an adjunct professor of marketing at Claremont Graduate University's Drucker School and a former Columbia Pictures executive, acknowledges that the show has trouble when the nominees, however noteworthy, aren't big box-office successes.

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The TV ad market is "reaching the top of the curve, " and digital technologies will accelerate the coming decline, says Peter Sealey, a former Coke marketing chief who now teaches at the University of California at Berkeley.

FORBES: ZAP!

As senior vice president of global marketing in the early 1990s, Sealey introduced the "Always Coca-Cola" campaign with its lovable polar bears--and was sacked soon after in what has become a pattern of top-level purges in Atlanta.

FORBES: Gone Flat