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...change societies," he said. "You can't have prosperity unless people can read. It's just as simple as that." After the President left, the group enjoyed a luncheon of chilled green pea soup, grilled wild Alaskan salmon, and glazed autumn vegetables, and corn pudding and deep dish apple pie, with performances by the Dance Theatre of Harlem and the Young People's Chorus of New York City...
...their congested downtowns, he predicted, Segways would become the urban transporters of choice. He wasn?t alone in his enthusiasm. Such renowned investors and entrepreneurs as John Doerr, the venture capitalist who helped midwife Amazon.com and Google, and Apple?s Steve Jobs, vied for a piece of the Segway pie and did their bit to hype the machine before its anticlimactic launch. Doerr told TIME that Segway would become the fastest company to hit $1 billion in sales. Steve Jobs ventured its impact would equal that of the PC. If Segway has sold only 23,500 machines to date...
...findings of Malkin Professor of Public Policy Robert Putnam and his famous warning about the disappearance of American civil society. Part leadership how-to and part sociological study, “Applebee’s America” may have tried to take too large a bite of analytical pie. The authors certainly drive home their points with statistical and anecdotal data spanning the fields of politics, business, and spirituality, but their findings are difficult to remember after an additional 100 pages on the past, present, and future of all of American society. “Applebee?...
...chic sense of style; the socialite, the enviable lite fluent in the latest must-have culture; and the visionary, an original and unprecedented trendsetter with inspirational expressions of fashion. Connoisseurs make up about 50% of BCBG's clientele, whereas visionaries are a "very little" slice of the pie and socialites fall somewhere in between. "Customers shop by taste level, not by whatever's hot," says Lubov. "We're training sales associates to pin customers and call them when something new comes in." It's a uniquely personal approach for a company with as many stores as BCBG. "We think...
...Bush bristled last week when, during a brief question session with reporters at a restaurant in Little Rock where he had just bought "fried pie," he was asked about the impact he thought the speech series would have on midterm elections. "They're not political speeches," he said. "They're speeches about the future of this country, and they're speeches to make it clear that if we retreat before the job is done, this nation would become even more in jeopardy. These are important times, and I seriously hope people wouldn't politicize these issues that I'm going...