Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rate, even 90 hours a week wouldn't cover dual-activist CEO gigs at two highly dynamic companies on opposite sides of the San Francisco Bay. Over and over, Jobs notes that he "doesn't direct the movies" at Pixar, and--the odd marketing meeting aside--he has clearly relinquished day-to-day leadership of the animation house to director John Lasseter on the creative side and co-founder Ed Catmull on the tech side. But when the company does need Jobs--mostly as a public face and all-purpose corporate strategist--he delivers. The money. The marketing. The deals...
...when Californians say they don't sit around worrying about earthquakes and mudslides; that they don't care when two professional football teams leave the state's largest city inside of three months; or that in the world capital of nutcase extremists, the guy who really seemed like an odd duck a year ago was Gray Davis, a nerdy gubernatorial candidate who claimed he would govern from the center, of all places...
...Killing the competition with kindness is more like it. For Bezos has long realized what Wall Street seems to have just awakened to: you can't stick around on the profit margins of a bookstore, or even a book-CD-video-toys-electronic store with the odd auction thrown in (which last year had sales of $1 billion and zero earnings as usual). To stay ahead of the curve, Amazon needs to build the ultimate e-commerce portal: the holy grail; the must-have home page for all online shoppers. And for that you need a shopping agent...
...case. We'd all like to freeze our mortality, stop it cold, and you can take Quinn's literal rendering of the idea or you can leave it. Yet the bust itself has all the solid weight of bronze, and this classical death mask in its futuristic case is odd and chilling indeed...
...House played for time. On Sunday the troops went out to the talk shows to make the case for postponing even longer. "What we have now is the need to explain it to the Senate, to the Congress," Energy Secretary Bill Richardson said on Fox, which seems a little odd considering the administration has already had three years to make its case...