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...kind of business deal that doesn't give a joint win [to both parties] is ludicrous. I can't think of any one-sided deals that have been really good for us. Try to figure out when you really have vested interests aligned. And don't try to seize the moment where you've got a little too much. Knowing what you know on your side, would you sign up on the end of this deal? Don't go there if they're agreeing to it but you wouldn't. A deal that is relatively as balanced as possible will...
...alone. As more and more kids pack on more and more pounds--climbing inexorably from a healthy weight to excess weight to full-blown obesity--parents find themselves grappling with questions they never had to deal with when the only weight problems they had to think about were their own. How do you effectively control another person's eating behavior? How do you motivate someone--especially a young, impulsive, pleasure-driven someone--to make smart food choices, to get up off the couch, to turn off the television? And how do you accomplish that without making that young person feel...
...first class when you're stealing bandwidth. Wi-fi hot spots are large--about the size of a football field--but those signals had to pass through a lot of masonry before they got to my laptop. Wi-fi operates on an unlicensed frequency, so it has to deal with interference from baby monitors and microwave ovens and cordless phones too. As a result, my Internet access would vanish and reappear like a will-o'-the-wisp, even when I engaged OS X's excitingly named "interference robustness" feature. I always seemed to lose connectivity just when I was about...
Thus we learn that, like a chef or a spa owner, she has to deal with bad reviews (on a website for sex connoisseurs). Her friends tend to be other service pros: bar managers, boutique clerks, concierges. She earns £105,000 (more than $200,000) a year, pays 40% to a snooty female "agent" and exchanges, ahem, services with her tax preparer. (She writes him a check and he gives her cash back, so that she can get a receipt and write off the tax-prep...
There were career frustrations too. The acting work in L.A. was spotty and hardly satisfying. "You get a Seinfeld episode, and people still to this day think that's a big deal," he says. "'You were on the Festivus episode.' That was four days out of my life!" He knew it was time to leave when he was kicking himself for losing out on a regular role in V.I.P., the Pamela Anderson action series. He drove to Chicago to appear in a Steppenwolf production of Glengarry Glen Ross and decided to stay...