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...rather big there in five to 10 years. Are the products at IKEA the same everywhere? There are 10,000 products in our range; 5,000 are in every store in every country. The rest vary. I'm a little frustrated right now. [He holds up his coffee mug.] I haven't seen this mug in our assortment. I must go see the head of this restaurant. I will hang him if he has bought this mug outside IKEA. Is your home furnished with IKEA furniture? Yes, of course...
KAMPRAD: There are 10,000 products in our range; 5,000 are in every store in every country. The rest vary. I'm a little frustrated right now. [He holds up his coffee mug.] I haven't seen this mug in our assortment. I must go see the head of this restaurant. I will hang him if he has bought this mug outside IKEA...
...Hutch is a bum. His big "entrance" on the first pages of the new book, in a story titled "Aristotle," has him staring through a caf? window, salivating at the sight of an abandoned, half-full coffee mug. He enters, drinks, and complains about it. Setting up to deliver a lesson on Aristotle to his young admirers Owen becomes incensed at the proprietor's suggestion that they buy something. "I don't pay for things," he says. "And I don't work." A stubborn malcontent with bad teeth and a dirty cap, Hutch has dropped out in order to follow...
...bank's employees a crash course in 21st century finance. He has made the bank switch from typewriters and calculators to computers, introduced it to newfangled financial instruments like currency auctions and replaced the country's bank notes so that Iraqis no longer have to carry Saddam Hussein's mug in their wallet. Not bad for a man who had never worked at a central bank. And despite the ongoing war, al-Shabibi has held the Iraqi currency, the dinar, firm at about 1,450 to the U.S. dollar. "We have all kinds of instability here already," al-Shabibi says...
...that hang overhead are suspended by a lattice of steel supports that angle down from what appears to be corrugated tin. Like a Pompidou Center minus the art, a network of unabashedly exposed rectangular ducts, pipes of varying thickness, massive red steel columns, and I-beams lined with coffee-mug-size rivets frame the edges of the room...