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...Harold Erickson knows his pet food. Every week he doles out thousands of pounds of Royal Canin therapeutic chow for every kind of pet, from aged Afghans to plump Persians. After Hurricane Charley blew through Florida late last summer, the former Army sergeant knew work might get hectic. He had no idea. On Aug. 16, French-based Royal Canin called with an urgent order, and within the hour Erickson, 46, and his co-workers mixed, packed and shipped a whopping 500 lbs. of premium dog and cat food--which can cost up to $30 per 16-lb. bag--to panicked...
...meantime, Harold Erickson is on the job. He spent much of his 22 years in the military organizing and shipping vital supplies like ammo and armor to thousands of soldiers all over the world. Though he recognizes that his current shipments for UPS clearly don't have that life-or-death urgency, Erickson knows what the customer expects. That's why UPS has an on-time delivery rate that's better than 99% for Royal Canin's upscale pet food. Erickson admits, "I was surprised that UPS did this sort of thing." If Eskew has his way, people...
...need for speed, to Turner, driven by the thrill of risk and winning, American inventors and innovators during the U.S.'s march to economic dominance in the past two centuries have thrived in difficult--even deadly--conditions. In They Made America (Little, Brown; 496 pages), author, journalist and immigrant Harold Evans celebrates the near mythic lives of 70 unique thinkers who beat long odds to realize a dream and, in their day, to improve life for the masses...
...were the philanthropists that donated so generously—each supplying a munificent $1 million—to the cause? Two Texas-based executives, Harold Simmons and T. Boone Pickens, who’ve been longtime donors to President Bush and his party. Shocking, I know. And just to speak a word of these quality contributors, the Los Angeles Times reported that “Simmons’ Waste Control Specialists firm won permission this year from the Texas Health Department in its efforts to dispose of low-level nuclear waste in West Texas. Environmentalists are fighting the decision...
Clearly, previous presidents—Democrats and Republicans—have played the same game. Harold Ickes, the deputy White House chief of staff under President Clinton, famously helped manage Clinton’s re-election campaign from inside the West Wing. But a squalid past is no excuse for a sordid future...