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...aerospace company created by Bill Boeing from modest beginnings in a Seattle barn. Although its 156,000 workers produce thousands of products, from Internet equipment to satellites, the Boeing name has always meant aircraft. Yet for the second straight year, the $50 billion firm, based in Chicago, has been outsold by Airbus. In 2004 Boeing saw its market share fall to 43%, from 67% just five years...
...outselling Usher and Avril Lavigne. I couldn't tell you who half these people are. My kids were very impressed that I outsold Usher. And then they showed me who he was. I said, "Oh, I get it. Is he a rapper...
AUTOMOBILES Despite Fisher's experience, most automakers are highly attentive to changes in demographics and consumer preferences. The wider profile of the U.S. buyer is cited as one reason that SUVs and other so-called light trucks outsold passenger cars in 2002. "The quickest way to alienate customers is to have them rubbing against something," says Michael Arbaugh, a top Ford interior designer. The seats in Ford's already spacious Lincoln Navigator were widened an inch for the 2003 model, and the room between driver and steering wheel was opened up considerably. In its 2003 Focus compact, Ford narrowed...
...picture of Sony Music chairman Tommy Mottola sporting demonic horns, led fans to protest outside Sony's Manhattan headquarters, where he called Mottola a racist. A few days later, at a conference to combat racism in the music industry, Jackson charged that "they" had sabotaged his career after he outsold white artists like Elvis and the Beatles. "Overnight, they called me a freak, a homosexual, a child molester. It's a conspiracy." He also declared, "I know I'm black." His newfound self-awareness failed to generate compassion in the music world, where most people believe his true concern...
Although the books did well before Sept. 11, sales soared in the confusing period that followed, and it's fair to speculate that last year's installment, Desecration: Antichrist Takes the Throne, would not have outsold John Grisham's Skipping Christmas to become the biggest novel of 2001 if the planes had not crashed. Near the end of the first volume, Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days (1995), Jenkins writes of one of the heroes, "He wanted to believe something that tied everything together and made it make sense." Exactly...