Word: mads
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...carpets, yes. But Turkish jeans? No item of clothing is as American as a pair of jeans, and no market is harder to crack. So when the father and son team behind burgeoning Turkish denim brand Mavi set their sights on the New World, people naturally thought they were mad. Even madder, rather than sell their jeans at Wal-Mart on the cheap, as many developing country producers do, the pair went for the gold: fashion-conscious youths willing to fork out $60 a pair. And for more than a year after Mavi began exporting to select U.S. department stores...
...added, ?and the chances of us beating her at that game seem to me rather remote.? As for human cloning, he saw no moral arguments against it if it turned out to be a safe. He even allowed that something good might be said for the atomic bomb: ?Maybe MAD (mutually assured destruction) did indeed prevent great wars between East and West.? So, asked his interlocutor TIME senior sciences editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt, ?your line is that the glass is half full?? ?That?s right,? Ridley replied...
...seemed to get mad,” he said...
Spector arrived at the club after a late dinner-and-Daiquiri date with another woman. The first superstar record producer and a millionaire at 21, Spector, now 62, was the mad genius who perfected the pop single with his lavishly textured "wall of sound" studio technique, crafting hits for the Ronettes, the Beatles, Ike and Tina Turner and the Righteous Brothers, among others. But drugs, booze and paranoia ended the chart-topping reign of the man Tom Wolfe called the "first tycoon of teen." Spector went into seclusion for years and took to running around his hilltop mansion...
...hands and a marketing background to help him get a book into stores, he started Eiffel Press in 1999. Fried hired a book packager to help design the publication, and in 2000, he self-published Memoirs of a Papillon: The Canine Guide to Living with Humans Without Going Mad...