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...Reach Marketing. Giants like Wal-Mart, Target and Kroger now largely dictate the terms. At the same time, they've devoted more resources to popular in-house store brands, which now account for 20% of sales. Wal-Mart chairman David Glass, a national brand fan, faults manufacturers who have "quit delivering as much value as they...
...Sharansky played chess against himself in his head. It kept him sane. (It had the added benefit, he likes to note, of providing him with a lift. "I always won," he recalls cheerfully.) And Bobby Fischer has been playing chess with few people other than himself ever since he quit as world champion and practically disappeared 25 years ago. But then, Fischer has the look of a paranoid schizophrenic...
...healthy? "You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy," H.G. Wells suggested long before the Net. "Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy, and unreliable--but teach him, inoculate him with chess." A Chilean friend quit the club and deleted the whole program from his computer after clicking on a whimsical feature that calculated "percentage of your life wasted on chess." (I paraphrase.) He found the number disturbingly high...
...voucher" and wipe out federal nursing-home standards), Gandhi got rocked. He lost control of the campaign and never recovered. In conference calls with the candidate, Bradley supporters like Congressmen Jim McDermott of Washington, George Miller of California and Jerrold Nadler of New York would scream at him--"Quit letting him pound you!"--and he would reply, "Well, we're starting to take him on some." But the Congressmen didn't see it. "When I signed on," says one, "I thought, 'He's a basketball player. There's got to be a competitor in there.' But he didn't want...
...after she quit her job, she called me up exclaiming, "Now I know why your house looks so nice!" She had lasted only two hours as a shut-in freelancer before making haste to Bed Bath & Beyond...