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...Googlewhacking is the cultish hobby of trying to Google search with two words and getting only a single result. See www.googlewhacking.com...
...plan to ease into major U.S. cities was partly inspired by another cultish brand. Kiehl's, the iconic New York City pharmacy founded in 1851, waited 150 years to open its second store. Soon after being bought by L'Oreal in 2000, the company, whose products were already widely available in top-tier department stores, set up a stand-alone boutique in San Francisco. Kiehl's has since moved into a handful of other U.S. cities, but don't look for it in your local mall anytime soon. Likewise, by the end of next year, Lush plans to open...
...Instead of inspiring confidence, his behavior caused a bank run. Startled depositors yanked their accounts, and Philippine staffers?not inclined to swallow the weird, cultish rituals Ogami's officers tried to impose?quit in droves. Unitrust was forced to close its doors this January. With the bank in receivership, thousands of remaining depositors are unable to access their funds. "I'm about to lose hope," says one, whose account held all his earnings from years of labor abroad. Rafael Buenaventura, governor of the Philippines central bank, concedes, "This is a clear case of our weak regulatory environment...
...hackwork. "With Steve Ditko, Spider-Man had these sexual undertones to it that read as being the work of a singular artist," says Clowes. Today's successors, he says, are "just a 10th-generation regurgitation of the same stuff over and over." The comic crowd became older, insular and cultish while kids turned to video games. "Gamers really know how to do power fantasies right," says Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics, "and they're riding a wave of technological progress...
...loans, the offering is expected to be massively oversubscribed. The meeting also marks the retirement of Edouard's father, 75-year-old patriarch François Michelin, who took the helm in 1957. With his focus on technological innovation - the company invented the radial tire - and almost cultish devotion to the customer, he transformed Michelin from the world's 10th-ranked tiremaker into the second-largest producer, after Goodyear. Edouard realizes that some of Michelin's practices must be updated, but says he remains dedicated to the business priorities and company culture for which both his father and the firm...