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...sixth cup of coffee. (His mantra "People don't like to be sold, but they love to buy" is restated a few pages later as "Selling is puking. Your customer wants to buy.") Despite the occasional coarseness (he proudly claims to have "edited out one thing, all the bull____"), Gitomer's books have a certain blustery earnestness. They are the kind of books that Willy Loman would have proudly stuffed in his coat pocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barnum Would Be Proud | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

...earth flight (that's what upsets unpracticed bellies). The tactic certainly reduces the helicopter's exposure to enemy fire from below, but it doesn't eliminate it. Helicopter pilots speak warily of "golden BBs" that can bring down their bird. There are a fair number of bull's-eyes on those spindly mechanical beasts - rotor blades, fuel systems, driveshafts, hydraulic lines - that, if hit, can doom a helicopter. Many of them don't exist on fixed-wing aircraft, or are better protected on the faster machines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Are So Many Choppers Crashing? | 2/7/2007 | See Source »

...bust when the buying is concentrated on blue-chip names," says Lan Xue, head of China research for Citigroup. "It's when the buying goes into the second line, third line, fourth line [companies]-the speedy names-this is what would get me more worried." Xue predicts the bull market will continue at least another one to two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taming China's Dragon Market | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

...bust when the buying is concentrated on blue-chip names," says Lan Xue, head of China research for Citigroup. "It's when the buying goes into the second line, third line, fourth line [companies]--the speedy names--this is what would get me more worried." Xue predicts that the bull market will continue for at least one to two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: China Braces For A Bubble | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

...came after two EDS managers were jailed in Tehran amid the revolutionary chaos of 1978. While bargaining with the tottering regime of the Shah for his men's release, Perot organized a commando team from among his EDS employees and hired a former Green Beret colonel, Arthur ("Bull") Simons, to lead an improbable rescue mission. Incredibly, it succeeded. Perot's operatives persuaded a revolutionary mob to storm the jail where the EDS men were held, then spirited the Americans 500 miles to safety in Turkey. Perot's feat was popularized by Novelist Ken Follett in the best seller On Wings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Need a Rescue? Call Ross | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

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