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...considered the benefits of having more lab space and secure financial backing. "It was still a risky venture," he remembers. "Marty Hirsch said, 'You're crazy. This is New York City. The politics will eat you up.'" But for Ho, the chance to do what he wanted, and to attract top-level scientists to join him, was too good to pass...
Many conjecture that the turtle's plan had been to let the pheromone network sink into decrepitude in order to improve it. The incongruence of a premier hub with a shoddy means of communication would attract the vultures (the richest members of the swamp, of whom many had once belonged to the hub), who would be appalled into refurbishing the system. It was a plan the turtle had used many times in the past, with success, but this time, the vultures were simply appalled and decided instead to invest in carrion futures. And the group dissolved...
...says the industry used to assume that films drawing a largely African-American audience had a boxoffice ceiling of $40 million. Then came Fox's Waiting to Exhale, which was made for a relatively frugal $17 million and took in $65 million. But Sherak says the film didn't attract white audiences despite a hit sound-track album and the presence of Houston, who had already proved herself a box-office draw opposite Kevin Costner in The Bodyguard. "We tried to sell the story of four friends, not looking at color," Sherak remembers of the Waiting to Exhale marketing campaign...
...calling the plus-size department "Macy Woman," is the store trying to attract slightly heavier women by appealing to their self-esteem? By insinuating that their female, companions with less flesh on the bones are somehow less woman and more girl...
...president also said that he plans to continue efforts to attract important Republican and conservative speakers...