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...believes, will draw customers who will run up larger tabs--and create fatter profits. "Bigger ain't better. Better is better," Wynn says. The Wynn Macau "would look not like an office building, but a resort. We will always get our market share, because we've got a better mousetrap." Adelson has "got an advantage, but I'll catch up lickety-split," Wynn says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Competition: Egos Bigger Than China | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

...according to Web monitoring agency Hitwise. And visitors, on average, spend twice as long on YouTube (18 minutes) as they do watching Google videos. So Google pounced, betting that online video ads and distribution will be key to the search giant's future revenue growth. "YouTube built a better mousetrap. Not only did they build a better mousetrap, they built it earlier and faster than Google did," says Scott Kessler, Internet analyst at Standard and Poor's. "Google is the far and away leader in online video right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Google's Big Bet Pay Off? | 10/9/2006 | See Source »

...creativity and eccentricity, believes it's more complicated than that. "Ambition is energy and determination," he says. "But it calls for goals too. People with goals but no energy are the ones who wind up sitting on the couch saying 'One day I'm going to build a better mousetrap.' People with energy but no clear goals just dissipate themselves in one desultory project after the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ambition: Why Some People Are Most Likely To Succeed | 11/6/2005 | See Source »

...divine bait-and-switch scheme, whereby the devil thought he had claimed a particularly virtuous human victim only to discover he had allowed into his sanctum the power that would eventually wrest humanity back from his grasp. St. Augustine likened the devil to a mouse, the Cross to a mousetrap and Christ to the bait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Why Did Jesus Die? | 4/12/2004 | See Source »

...Laying a Mousetrap Can a cable guy from Philly snare Disney--and boot the chief Mouseketeer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Table of Contents: Feb. 23, 2004 | 2/23/2004 | See Source »

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