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...word: yes. Like dotcom flameouts Kozmo.com and Webvan, the Standard followed the mantra--first popularized by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos--of Get Big Fast. Hundreds of reporters were hired. A New York City office opened. A second magazine, Grok, was launched (though quickly abandoned). Conference costs spiraled. Lease commitments for tony office space were more than $50 million. "We were very aggressive," editor in chief Jonathan Weber said last Friday from the magazine's suddenly empty offices. "We took funding from venture capitalists and had a high-growth strategy. It's clear from hindsight that wasn't the best idea...
...That?s been a boon for conservative Republicans, who applaud his "straight-talking ways" and have come to count on Helms to carry the ideological banner into battle. Among moderates and liberals of both parties, however, Helms? right-wing, "family values" mantra has alienated many...
Young people everywhere took Lonely Planet's mantra to heart. There are no reliable figures for how many still do so every year?"millions and millions in Asia," according to a spokesman for the Pacific Asia Travel Association. But Lonely Planet's position as the world's largest independent guidebook producer, with annual sales of its 430 titles pulling in $30 million, gives some indication. India and Southeast Asia on a Shoestring (the "yellow bible") are among the top sellers, with more than half a million bought of each. Founder Tony Wheeler is frequently cited as the man who changed...
...tragic but isolated" rebuttal has been the industry's mantra as it has tried to stave off government regulators. The argument has worked in the past, in part because there are few national statistics on the frequency of problems at assisted-living facilities. The most comprehensive study, a 1999 survey of assisted living in four states by Congress' General Accounting Office, found that 27% of surveyed facilities had been cited for five or more quality-of-care violations in a two-year period and that 11% had been cited for 10 or more violations. HHS's new national study will...
...light. In addition to three spin-off books from Multnomah, the tiny publisher of The Prayer of Jabez, five other publishers have Jabez-inspired books out now or in the works. Among them: Praying Like Jesus (HarperSanFrancisco), I Just Wanted More Land (Xulon Press) and a parody, The Mantra of Jabez (Canon). What, no TV series...