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...suing - to break contracts. This is our dotcom bust, except worse, because our local governments are utterly dependent on construction for tax revenues, so they're slashing school and public-transportation budgets that were already among the nation's stingiest. "This may be our tipping point," says former Senator Bob Graham...
...Lyndon B. Johnson in his White House in 1960, but he needed Johnson's home state of Texas in his win column. Gerald R. Ford was pressured by the G.O.P.'s conservative wing to drop liberal Nelson Rockefeller from his 1976 ticket in favor of the more right-leaning Bob Dole...
Gaining a significant share of the high-end spice market would be a notable accomplishment for the two career changers. TSP adviser Bob Burke, principal of Natural Products Consulting, who helped strategize for popular brands like Stonyfield Farm, Annie's Homegrown and Oregon Chai, says the two have a reasonable shot at success. "They're quick learners with an innovative concept that they execute with style and flair." Just as Annie's managed to take a bite out of Kraft's lock on the mac-and-cheese market, he says, TSP could eventually nibble out a nice niche...
...Wayne has a smoke-scarred rasp that makes him sound like Redd Foxx covering Bob Dylan. It's hardly the voice you'd expect from a 25-year-old rap star, but then, it's been a busy 25 years...
...least some of the credit goes to Roberts' personality and leadership style. He went out of his way to persuade his colleagues to turn down the volume and lighten up when they disagreed, even spicing up his dissent in a technical dispute between phone companies by borrowing playfully from Bob Dylan's Like a Rolling Stone: "When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose...