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Vendors sold food and drinks at the powwow, including “frybread,” similar to fried dough. They also sold t-shirts and other clothing and merchandise...
...threatening to cut off supplies of Hagen-Dazs to distributors who also carried Ben & Jerry's. Turning adversity into a publicity ploy, Ben & Jerry's gave customers thousands of T shirts and bumper stickers that poked fun at the Pillsbury corporate symbol by asking: WHAT'S THE DOUGH BOY AFRAID OF? Without admitting any wrongdoing, Pillsbury settled the complaint out of court...
...course CEOs rake in the dough. But a study says the beefier paychecks can't be explained by increases in their companies' market cap or anything else. In other words, the bosses didn't earn those hikes. The study--done by two professors, one from Harvard law, the other from Cornell's business school--found that among S&P 500 companies, the compensation of CEOs soared 146%, on average, from...
...while, Seagrave is zestfully constructing an arresting case against his subjects. If the Soongs seemed larger than life, he argues, it was because they shrouded themselves in self-created legends. In fact, he insists, the family treated national funds as play dough, milking the opium market, pocketing American loans and hatching so many wartime scams that within five months of being installed at a rate of four to $1, the gold yuan had plunged to a rate of 1 million to $1. He further repeats the familiar charge that in 1934 the Generalissimo, hell-bent on settling scores with...
...Hampshire, chairman of the Budget Committee, who opposed each measure with the wry frustration of a man attempting to juggle Jell-O. Norm Coleman, Republican of Minnesota, wanted to restore block grants for cities. "I could tell you story after story," he said about the glorious effects of federal dough. "If we start funding all the stories," Gregg responded, "we're going to run out of money." Ted Kennedy then rose, bristling with charts and graphs, to beg restoration of $5.4 billion for public education. "If money were the answer," Gregg sighed, "Washington, D.C., would have the best schools...