Word: martha
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...loads" in TIME? And the thing is, now I'm not even doing the column myself. I'm so busy with investments, I have people in Malaysia doing the setups and punch lines, and we have them assembled in Mexico. Dave Barry is a brand now. Just like Martha Stewart...
Executives at Charles Schwab faced a similar painful trade-off in 1997. In 1996 the discount brokerage developed a separate online unit called e.Schwab. "But customers were understandably confused," says Martha Deevy, senior vice president of Schwab's electronic brokerage business. "The online customers wanted to go into a branch office to talk to someone in person, and the branch customers wanted the convenience of trading online." So Schwab gave the customers what they wanted, uniting the businesses and dropping the cost of all trades to the online price--$29.95. Schwab took a hit in the short run, the price...
...members of the crew left Gay Head's in Menemsha Harbor in Martha's Vineyard at 5 a.m. Although they expected to return in the early evening, it would not be until 9:30 the next morning that they would return...
...battery died, leaving the crew stranded 45 miles south of Martha's Vineyard, with a dead engine and no radio, lights or bilge pump late in the afternoon. The crew was not worried, even as attempts to revive the engine failed...
Past winners from the contest's 42-year history include home decorating guru Martha Stewart, Cosmopolitan editor Kate White and speech-pathologist-to-the-stars Lillian Glass...