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...that's about it. Kenneth Lay, when he was king of the futuristic energy-trading field his company pioneered, got for his investment what super-rich business leaders have been getting from politicians since the Rockefellers and the Carnegies - the ear of powerful pols...
...middle of the street. He has a vending pushcart. When he sees the people jumping, he completely loses it. He runs toward me to grab me. I have to get somebody to drag him away from me. I can't think with him screaming in my ear. This is minutes before the mayor arrives...
...Even Berlin could not assume that every song he offered the fickle masses would be received with rapture. So he kept his old music in the public ear through revivals and movie knapsacks - the five Greatest Hits films "Alexander's Ragtime Band," "Blue Skies," "Easter Parade," "White Christmas" and "There's No Business Like Show Business." All this perpetuated "Irving Berlin" as a product with no expiration date. He was second only to Walt Disney at branding, and extending the brand. Both men were media visionaries; they saw that such seemingly ephemeral items as cartoons and pop songs...
...that cozier place we retreated to, Berlin was waiting, hibernating. That old feeling? He surely had it No one could be older (Berlin died at 101 in 1989); and no one knew better how to set a feeling to music insinuate it in the public ear. If the musical sophisticates razzed him for writing candy corn, he public gobbled it up. If he never achieved the acceptance of Jerome Kern, George Gershwin or Richard Rodgers, well, hell, they needed someone else to write their lyrics; Berlin did it all himself. If he seemed an immigrant all-American, that's because...
That job is selling polyethylene to makers of such products as buckets and food packaging. Until Eastman set up its website, Mitchell fielded 40 to 50 calls a day from potential buyers and haggled over prices for hours. "I was getting cauliflower ear," she says. Now she simply tells the buyers when to log on to the website for an auction. Within 15 minutes, it's all over, with an e-mail message going out automatically to the winner. But when supplies of polyethylene are scarce, Mitchell stops doing auctions and doles it out to select buyers with whom...