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...road to the ag lifestyle was not exactly a straight one. Tractor Supply Co. was founded in 1938 as a haven for farmers who needed tractor parts (hence the catchy name). Over the next four decades, TSC strayed off the farm and started peddling everything from sporting goods to Crock-Pots. In the 1970s, conglomerate Fuqua Industries acquired TSC, further diluting the retailer's focus. Scarlett participated in a leveraged buyout in 1982 and floated TSC as a public company in 1994; he owns 14.5% of the common stock, worth about $233 million today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greener Pastures | 5/4/2005 | See Source »

...Marilyn Monroe or Can-Can Girls. “Our slant is not fright, it’s funny,” says manager Valerie Pontbriand. While costumes such as “Hot Shit,” “Holy Shit” and “Crock of Shit” and a selection of over 10,000 accessories draw people to the shop, it is the energetic and amused attitude of its employees that keeps customers there. A place where the manager answers the phone wearing a pair of buck teeth, Four Eyes is the perfect...

Author: By Aria S.K. Laskin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dress-Up Time | 10/28/2004 | See Source »

...added, "I always tell young painters, 'Paint outside! If it's cold, wear a coat!'" What the crowds loved most was a quality in his booming voice that has largely disappeared in the rush to cool postmodernism - passion, swaggering passion. They lapped it up like wine from a broken crock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Patron Saint of Paint | 2/15/2004 | See Source »

Digital displays have been fastened to everything from curling irons to space heaters--with mixed results. We found the LCD screen on Rival's prototype Recipe Smart-Pot (a high-tech Crock-Pot with 200 built-in recipes) too small to scan entire recipes at a glance. By contrast, the $100 Electronic Weight Control System from Concord Technologies was handy and easy on the eyes; the bathroom scale stores the weights of a family of four for as long as a year and comes with a wireless remote that you can attach to the wall at eye level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Housewares | 1/27/2003 | See Source »

...that there was a problem and we addressed it pretty quickly,” Oliver S. Hart, chair of the economics department, told The Crimson. “I think it’s good for students to voice their concerns.” That’s a crock. Students should not have to ring sirens on ineffective teachers; it’s not their job. Neugeboren’s last three CUE Guide ratings for Economics 1050, “Strategy, Conflict and Cooperation” all had students complaining of disorganization. Though CUE rankings can be biased...

Author: By Arianne R. Cohen, | Title: World's Greatest University, World's Worst Teachers | 11/4/2002 | See Source »

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