Word: distributor
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...snap up their personal souvenir of the conflict: the Iraqi most-wanted playing cards used by U.S. soldiers to help identify Saddam's top brass. At $5.95 each, more than a million decks have already sold worldwide. Even the French are buying. The surprising popularity has prompted the cards' distributor, GreatUSAflags.com to reissue other decks created for the military in earlier wars. On sale this week: World War II "spotter decks," which enabled troops to distinguish between Allied and enemy aircraft. Coming soon: the ace-of-spades decks used as psychological warfare during the Vietnam War. Below, a collector...
Katzenbach strips back the warm fuzzies to get at the telling details. Bartholomew's husband Eddie works for a food distributor that threatens layoffs for those who miss sales quotas, so he has little incentive to do more than meet them. At KFC, however, Jennifer is judged subjectively by her bosses on her commitment to regional restaurant managers. Higher sales often result, but numbers don't define her. Katzenbach writes, "While money may attract and retain people, it is rarely at the heart of what motivates them to excel...
...woman with whom you do not want to battle over "Little Lulu" trivia. The other four judges included Charles Vess, a longtime comix artist and illustrator; Jeremy Shorr, a jocular Texan who runs a comic store in Dallas; Steve Leaf, a purchasing agent for Diamond, America's largest comic distributor; and Jen Contino, a fellow web-based comix journalist. With the exception of Jen, who stayed home for personal reasons, we were all flown into San Diego to gather like the members of the Mission: Impossible team. Soon we were hunkered down in the basement of a mid-level hotel...
...didn't have as he wandered New York City with one of those films, Steamboat Willie, tucked under his arm was cash or clout. He was just an unknown 27-year-old animator from California who needed musicians and sound-effects guys to record a score--and a distributor to promote his product...
Belying its reputed distaste for crass commerce, NPR has become quite entrepreneurial--in a once cozy environment that has turned surprisingly competitive. NPR doesn't own any radio stations. It is an independent producer and distributor of shows, led by the venerable news programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered. More than 700 of the 908 public-radio stations in the U.S. pay annual NPR membership dues of $7,845, plus "carriage fees," which run as high as $1.3 million a year, to broadcast NPR programs. But in contrast to common practice in commercial radio and TV, public-radio stations...