Word: cowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...newcomers should ponder the fate of other studio retail ventures. At the apogee of Bart-mania, a Simpsons store opened in Los Angeles and quickly folded. Jay Ward, producer of Rocky and Bullwinkle, has a tiny store on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard, but it is no cash cow or money moose. Hanna- Barbera (The Flintstones, The Jetsons) operated two Los Angeles stores but closed them after Ted Turner bought the company...
...Coach Kevin Constantine has somehow overcome the language barrier to teach his team the fundamentals of team defense, and just as Florida almost rode John Vanbiesbrouck to the playoffs in its first year of NHL existence, San Jose has a true cash cow in Irbe, who outshined the Maple Leafs' more Heralded Felix Potvin in Game...
...clock on a rainy morning in San Francisco, hundreds of people were running across the parking lots of the Cow Palace in the pursuit of happiness. This was the fourth of 41 stops scheduled so far for Success 1994, a road show featuring the best-known former cookware and computer salesmen in the country, famous athletes, more famous preachers, military heroes, the Governor of New York and three -- count 'em, three! -- former Presidents...
...this and writing best-selling books with titles like See You at the Top for more than 30 years. He gets paid $30,000 up front for each appearance on the Success circuit, quite a bit less than half of what Reagan and Schwarzkopf collect. But he commanded the Cow Palace for 2 1/2 hours with only a 15-min. break to sell his tapes, both audio and video. How to Stay Motivated was $169.95, Courtship After Marriage was $60. "The whole shootin' match, value $2,515," could...
...money or power," Peter Lowe said when we talked after the Cow Palace was empty and still again, rejecting whatever cynicism I had brought to the seminar. "People want love, happiness and peace . . . What we're doing is not 'Get rich quick.' It's moral and spiritual; this lays a foundation for a new life...