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Unlike the big toy companies, which rely on market testing and focus groups to refine their new offerings, Shiffman developed iZ by following his gut. He hired Jeff Breslow, president of Big Monster Toys, the Chicago design firm, to create the new toy. "He told me, 'I want another Furby,'" says Breslow, whose team produced the prototype three months later. iZ's blinking beak adds $1 in costs, but Shiffman insisted on keeping it. He incorporated a jack so that users can hook up their iPod to play their own songs pumped up with riffs from iZ. Suggested retail price...
...here are shocked. Maytag's profits have been shrinking for three years, and the company posted a $9 million loss last year. "I just had a gut feeling that at some point my time would come up," says Terry Pickett, who spent 17 years at Maytag as a tooling designer. Before he was laid off in April 2004, he had begun to look elsewhere for his future; he will finish his degree in civil engineering next spring. The town has been preparing as well. Since 2002, Newton has poured $130 million into parks, a 40,000-seat racetrack and small...
...definitely know I couldn’t play next year, so as of right now, it’s not looking good, but there is always an open door for the years after that. My gut feeling is that right now it is pretty much over,” Klunick told the Springfield State Journal-Register...
...activists - though they don't always see eye to eye - is constant and intense. Geldof came up with the idea for the Africa Commission that Blair enthusiastically implemented, laying out a detailed program for reform. With the precision of a wizened diplomat, Bono has learned to modulate between gut-wrenching appeals to conscience and public back-pats for leaders like German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder who face flak for coughing up too much for Africa. This co-dependency is getting practical results: to start with, some $40 billion in debt relief has been announced, with campaigners hinting that...
...modern strategy either. In a sport that touts the trendy Moneyball style of play, in which esoteric statistics guide decisions, Robinson doesn't know OPS (on-base percentage plus slugging, Moneyball's sacred stat) from UPS. "I don't like the computer," he says. "I go with instincts and gut feelings and heart." Entering last weekend, the Nats had won an NL-high 17 one-run games, in which a manager's chess moves have the most impact...