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...while, ING Direct keeps a laser focus on who its ideal customer is. Because the company sells bare-bones products at a slim margin, it needs low-maintenance customers. At the firm's New York City café, one of five token storefronts, manager Omar Woodard recently let an older woman walk away without an account after she worried aloud that branchless banking might be too newfangled. "Customers who don't fit our business model don't fit our business model, and that's totally O.K.," says Woodard. "The bank just wasn...
...encyclopedia from the Ball of Fire scholars and, from Ben's housemates, a scheme for a website that will itemize the nude scenes of movie actresses. This is an idea so perfect for the Internet that it actually precedes it: Craig Hosoda published his first edition of The Bare Facts Video Guide in the late 80s. The notion was later adapted for the Internet as the Mr. Skin site. Would the Ben-guys not have known of such a site? Are they pretending they have a project so they can watch movies of naked ladies? The answer, again: Because...
...swindle it is to argue that electing one man can somehow change the moral character of a nation. Pop culture is king in America, and it laughs at the feeble efforts of mere politicians to change it. This Administration can hold as many prayer breakfasts and cover as much bare-breasted statuary as it wants, it has still presided over the society that produced Joe Millionaire, the Saw movies and 50 Cent...
...Central to his argument was a call for strong ethics. “To me, integrity is the single most important quality you need as a leader,†he said onstage. “Integrity means more than telling the truth. That’s just the bare minimum. To me, integrity means never putting your goals ahead of your values.â€The American Express CEO reminded his audience of soon-to-be alums that the key to leadership is “followership.†Businesses have a responsibility to serve the public, according...
...student if he'd applied himself." With eight years in the Senate, his legislative record was thin. Says a former adviser: "While the Senate is filled with ambitious men who aren't in a rush to get home at night, Senator Thompson kept a lean formal schedule, did the bare minimum to get by and then hightailed [it] to the Prime Rib or the Capital Grille...