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...shelves. ATVs share the center aisle with shiny lawn mowers. Udder cream comes in pretty clover tins (women have discovered its charms for chapped lips), and lawn trinkets are the hot item for spring. In the pet center, an aluminum bin full of chirping baby chickens is adjacent to model plastic horses for the kids. "The 60-year-old farmer in his bib overalls is not buying toys for his pets," says Marty Terselic, Midwest regional store manager. "Their dogs work off their excess energy." For less-motivated, unemployed dogs, TSC sells training devices...
Karmazin concedes that he didn't foresee the potential of satellite radio and raised doubts about its viability as a business model. Just a week before being named CEO of Sirius, he told a broadcasters' conference in Portugal that while Stern made a "brilliant" deal for himself, "the jury is out on whether or not it is good for anybody else." To the old guard at Sirius, Karmazin certainly seemed like a saboteur. "They thought my agenda was to hold back satellite radio," he says of talks he had with Sirius in 2003 about a link with Viacom. What changed...
...three. These courses succeed in meshing approaches to knowledge and core knowledge, and in educating students about the historical, theoretical, and experimental aspects of their topics. Gen ed classes will never fulfill everyone’s expectations to the fullest. But by following the examples of a handful of model courses, both the minutiae of gen ed syllabi and the broad guiding principles of general education itself might actually satisfy those...
...engaged. "The 21/2 years of designing this hotel were like 90 days to me. No one saw me. I worked six days a week, and I was in ecstasy," he says. "Then we had to get financing, and that was work." It dawned on Wynn that his earlier, exhibitionist model--battling treasure ships outside Treasure Island, for example--needed to be turned, literally, outside in. "I thought, Could I have been wrong all this time about the feature being in the front of the hotel?" says Wynn. "The audience shouldn't be on the sidewalk. It should be inside--eating...
...particularly lucrative, as its clients tend to place long-term orders for highly specialized, high-margin goods. Similarly, at the other end of the spectrum, Sharp has profited richly by being the first company to bring extra-large LCD TVs to market: it rolled out a 45-in. model last year, which it plans to follow later this year with a 50-in. set. While the price of flat-panel TVs overall has tumbled 30% in the past year, Sharp's TV prices have slipped only 3%, not least because margins on these high-end products have not yet been...