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...increasingly popular, risk-free endorsement strategy is to trot out old goldies like Retton, who appears for a nanosecond in a Sprint PCS commercial that started airing last month, or Spitz, who will spend the Olympics in Athens blogging for panasonic.com They are among the rarest of gold-medal winners because they have such staying power. Most Olympic moments have notoriously short shelf lives, which means athletes with breakout performances this summer will have literally only a couple of weeks to capitalize on the momentum. Some past Olympic surprises, like gymnast Kerri Strug and sprinter Flo-Jo, had agents...
...determination to pursue them has an outsize impact on the rest of us. If the great men and women of ancient times were kings and queens, nautical explorers and epic poets, now we have superpower Presidents, technological titans and religious zealots who can upend the status quo in a nanosecond. Who is that core group today? Let us introduce you to the TIME 100, the most powerful and influential people...
...could have been enormous. Avoiding that cost was worth the risk of it not working. You can sit down and figure out what decision would give you the best probabilistically weighted result. That's what we tried to capture for President Clinton. He got it in about one nanosecond...
...seven minutes of dancing, kickboxing moves, push ups and Russian jumps. Fitness rehearsals were the worst part of the weeks leading up to the telecast. Though my abs were burning, the muscles I worked hardest were in my face—if you stopped smiling for a nanosecond the kindly Southern volunteers would scream out, “SMIIIIIIIILE, Maryland! The judges like girls who look happy...
...Fash said. “I’ve been in a number of different meetings...in which people will start to get worked up about something. And when people start to get a little edgy, he can sense that right away, and somehow in a nanosecond he comes up with the most surprising joke that completely deflates all the tension in the room...