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...more ego gratifying than being kissed by models was rejecting people. One guy brought six models and promised to buy a bottle of champagne. I sent him back to his stretch limo. I shooed away a man who called himself Papa and tried to stuff a $50 in my palm. I sent home a Wall Street guy who kept offering to "take care of me" and making me look at his date. And I couldn't say yes to the guy with a bandage on his nose who wanted a sympathy ticket for his "deviated septum" surgery. I turned down...
...family who went to sea. You looked at other people, and they seemed like little gray people who worked in offices and taught in schools. We had these drunken seaman uncles who were larger than life, who would come back in bright, gaudy, secondhand suits they bought in Palm Beach. They had money, you know, and they'd throw it 'round when everyone else was careful...
...PALM makes handheld computers and communications devices. Though Palm is named after a hand rather than a tree, Placek still likes the arboreal association: "A dramatic tree, resilient, capable of withstanding extreme temperatures, wind, lack of water--all good qualities for an emerging company...
...years. For a company with worldwide sales of just $500 million a year, the $10 million investment is sizable. But TaylorMade is convinced that it will pay for itself by wringing new efficiencies out of every part of the company. The sales reps will be able to use a Palm handheld device with an attached scanner to assess the inventory quickly and then use the i2 database to place and track orders...
...Wholesale Club in Medford, Mass., a white stretch limo waits at the curb while its passengers roam the cavernous discount warehouse. At Tom's Barber Shop in Jacksonville, lawyers and executives sit down next to truckers and shipyard workers for a $6 trim. At Deja Vu, a Palm Beach boutique that sells used designer clothes, women who once sent their maids and drivers to the back door with bundles of high-fashion castoffs to sell now bring them by in person and stick around to shop...