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Finally, Orey focuses on Mississippi attorney general Mike Moore's brainstorm: his novel lawsuit against the entire tobacco industry to recover the state's Medicaid costs. The idea worked with thermonuclear effectiveness, blowing tobacco's safe and unlocking the dirty billions...
...known infamously among HUDS circles simply as "Cranwell"--for the name of the facility where the retreat was held--the event gave the management team and then-incoming HUDS Director Ted A. Mayer an opportunity to brainstorm about the future of HUDS...
...consolation and no constraint. In theory, that is. In practice, constraint is inevitable. There will be bureaucratic rules and regs over who qualifies as a compassion conduit--along with ugly political battles, lawsuits and all the irritating side dishes of Big Government. Then someone will have a brainstorm: Why not let the voters decide what the government should do, and then have the government do that and no more? You might call it limited government. That person used to be called a conservative...
...doubt, of course, and certainly not humility, just a weary roll of the eyes that follows a glance in the mirror? So it seems with Barnes' very funny, very sour new novel, which re-creates England as a theme park on the Isle of Wight. The park is the brainstorm of Sir Jack Pitman, an overweening press lord, and his staff members, one of whom has doubts: "How do we advertise the English...a people widely perceived...as cold, snobbish, emotionally retarded, and xenophobic? As well as perfidious .." No fear; the evil ooze of marketing rules the waves...
...added that having two different groups of people brainstorm helped the groups come up with diverse ideas...