Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...something that we wanted to do to get ready for the upcoming rally in November," she said. "We've been trying to pull together people--a lot of new people have never heard of the living wage idea, and it's important to get the word...
Executives at Mattel, for example, can't remember the last hit toy the $4.8 billion company incubated without a movie licensing tie-in or an idea purchased from a smaller company. The days when the firm, based in El Segundo, Calif., was capable of organically growing a brand from the roots up, building Barbie or Hot Wheels into multibillion-dollar annual businesses, seem long gone...
...giants are rarely funny. When they are not menacing, they are pitiable. People do not like bigness, even when they are impressed by it. There are sound reasons for fearing the recent megamergers of corporations, but there is also the irrational reaction that we do not like the idea of anything that makes puny our control, our self-regard, our size. Thus the insults "Big man! Big shot!" Thus the derisive "Big deal!" Thus Wilt...
...point he says he's "cool with it." He is sitting with a friend who is trying to convince him that he should not take next year off. "College is good. Go to college," she implores. He tells her, "I'm going to junior college because I have no idea what I want to do, and I refuse to pay a four-year college tuition when I could pay a fraction of that and figure out what I want...
...inspiration. Right now he's working so feverishly to connect that he makes you want to give him a hug. "I don't want to tell you what's on my mind," he says constantly. "I want to show you what's in my heart"--and you get the idea he'd like to rip the thing clean out of his breast, just to prove he has one. What's fascinating is that this all shows signs of working. He sometimes manages to find what performers call the Zone--the elusive place where everything they try works. In Seattle...