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...game in 1990 made this industry universally ugly, particularly for Amex. With free Visa and MasterCard bank cards bulging their wallets, consumers were increasingly leaving home without American Express plastic. Instead of paying membership fees for cards that many merchants refused to honor--since American Express took a heavy bite out of purchases--more than 2 million Amex holders cut up their cards in the early 1990s. "We were in fairly sharp decline," says Kenneth Chenault, American Express's president...
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...situations in which waiting is the game, Snickers uses sweet humor to sell its nougat-filled chocolate bars. Hopefuls waiting to see St. Peter pass the time with a Snickers, as does a traded football player whose old tattoo must be painfully removed. The quirky spots take a bite out of boredom...
...Tyson's teeth Bite Me, Part II: in his bout with Evander Holyfield, Iron Mike chomped twice on the heavyweight champ's ear; he lost the fight and, for a year, his license to box. Poor Tyson: he should have tried team sports. Then he could kick a photographer, spit on refs, attack fans--and get a fat contract peddling overpriced sneakers to underprivileged kids...
...world--devouring all available information and breaking it down into pieces he can hold in his hand and turn over in his mind--has won him a reputation as a forward thinker on difficult issues. But it doesn't always help in politics. (Take, for example, the least effective bite-size phrase of Gore's career: "No controlling legal authority," a snippet of legalese he picked up from his counsel, Charles Burson, and repeated seven times during his disastrous March money-scandal press conference.) Gore has spent the past six years studying the master, trying to break Clinton's seamless...