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...first to see that I had creative ability in addition to business ability, and I helped Jimmy because I saw that he had incredible business instincts." Iovine's ease with musicians helped Interscope strike up several profitable partnerships with subsidiary labels, including Trauma Records, through which Interscope signed multimillion-seller Bush; Nothing Records, which brought Manson and industrial-rock innovator Trent Reznor; and Death Row, through which it co-financed discs by Snoop and producer...
With amazing prescience, Chall foresaw what would happen if phonics instruction was taken too far. "[W]e will be confronted in 10 or 20 years with another best seller: Why Robert Can't Read. The culprit in this angry book will be the 'prevailing' [phonics] approach... The suggested cure will be a 'natural' approach--one that teaches whole words and emphasizes reading for meaning and appreciation at the very beginning." The rise of whole language perfectly corresponds to this scenario...
...protect its turf, Toys "R" Us threatened its suppliers: toys sold to the discount clubs would not be sold at its stores. Exhibit A: Barbie, a hot seller that Toys "R" Us did not want available elsewhere at next to nothing. Manufacturers don't like the clubs either, because they stock a limited number of items at very low margins. Toys "R" Us, on the other hand, might stock everything Mattel makes. Admits Costco CEO James Sinegal: "You could fill Madison Square Garden with the people who don't want to sell to us." Industry watchers...
...chemical industry, which ridiculed Carson as an overly emotional woman unqualified to judge the health effects of compounds like DDT, her thorough research and exquisite ability to turn dry science into evocative prose won the hearts and minds of the public, who made the book an enormous best seller...
...exactitude--until finally a style that had previously been dismissed by editors as too poetic became celebrated as just poetic enough. When success finally arrived, with the publication of The Sea Around Us in 1951, it came as a tidal wave. Each of her four books became a best seller, and she won virtually every prestigious literary award, including election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters...