Word: luck
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Well, good luck finding the logo, for now. The FSC and others in the certification movement acknowledge that the number of good-wood products carrying the seal is quite small--not even 1% of all wooden wares sold in the U.S. "Certification has not hit the mainstream consumer market yet," says Francis Grant-Suttie of the World Wildlife Fund. "But when key retailers stock these products, consumers will become very aware, very quickly...
...holds things up to the light which we take for granted. For instance, most of us probably would say the Hard Rock Cafe succeeded through the simple combination of innovation, good advertising and luck. Gabler reveals the craziness of it in a way most authors would not be able to pinpoint. "The Hard Rock," he writes, "had been so celebritized that some people went there to buy a souvenir to commemorate the time they went to the Hard Rock to buy a souvenir which, in turn, broadcast to others that they had been to the Hard Rock...
...such dumb luck that I started playing, but I feel like I'm very cut out for rugby in a lot of ways," Steele said. "In a fourth-grade game of capture the flag a kid was just standing in my way as I was about to cross the line, and it didn't even occur to me to go around him. I just dropped a shoulder and rammed into...
...Good luck. The smart guys in Silicon Valley, whose condescension toward AOL has risen in direct proportion to its embrace by the public, have never considered the company a serious technology player. "America Online has built an exceptional franchise on a technology base that could charitably be called dated," says Roger McNamee, founder of the high-tech investment firm Integral Partners. "It has been difficult for its partners to work with, and for AOL itself to maintain." How can the company possibly hope to compete in the corporate networking market if its own network is held together with Scotch tape...
...much male leadership, has a history of social deviance and was merely a commodity in college. How do we handle guys like him? Coach Green has tried to provide an environment where they can succeed." Some, though, aren't so sure whether Green is enjoying a little short-term luck juggling a ticking time bomb. "Randy Moss has shown what everybody thought. He is an extremely talented player," Miami Dolphins coach Jimmy Johnson wrote recently in Dolphin Digest. "Whether or not he's going to be playing in this league three years from now, time will tell...