1. In the 90ies the marketing industry in Europe was hit by revolutionary events: the impact of the information society with its striking new technologies offered ways of approaching consumers nobody would have even dreamed of just a few years earlier.
Marketing Gurus were eager to invent new definitions, to coin sexy acronyms and to dispense their wisdom about how to target consumers in more and more aggressive manners as well as about how to reach effectively very specific (sometimes micro-) groups.
2. But soon legal experts started warning about some risky side effects of this marketing frenzy. To all those familiar with legal developments throughout the European Union it was quite clear that the new - and so popular - techniques and practices were evidently on a crushing course with the key principles set by the Directives nos....
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There was considerable public scrutiny of the Obama Administration’s performance in its inaugural year, but comparatively little focus on one of the Administration’s key processes governing the flow of investment into the United States _ namely, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).
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