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...children's-book business is a strange realm: whereas it's rare to sell millions of copies in a year (the anomaly of Harry Potter aside), the books tend to have an enduring shelf life. What other product created in the 1940s still sells well, almost completely unaltered? Goodnight Moon, Pat the Bunny and The Poky Little Puppy, sexagenarians nearly all; each still moves more than 150,000 hardbacks just about every year. And let's not even start on Dr. Seuss or P.D. Eastman. (Well, we can start: Green Eggs and Ham sold more than 500,000 copies...
...usual, Raimondi’s fellow freshman Chu stood out. She also benefited from a perfect Botterill pass with a shorthanded top-shelf goal that opened the evening’s scoring...
...really thought we had them on the shelf at this point,” Delaney-Smith said...
...home country, studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford and then earned law and business degrees from Harvard. He clerked for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall--who, unable to pronounce his name, dubbed him "Obeedoogee." (Most friends and colleagues today call him Bayo.) Ogunlesi joined the top-shelf New York City law firm Cravath, Swain & Moore, where he jumped at the chance to advise First Boston on a Nigerian gas project. Success in that effort landed him a better job at First Boston (which was acquired by Credit Suisse in 1997). For First Boston he worked in project finance, brokering...
...something in the window catches my eye, I go in and find it, try it on, admire myself for a few minutes, pretend it’s mine, and put it back on the shelf and leave. And it’s not a problem because the salesgirls aren’t pit bulls like in so many other overpriced stores. They welcome you when you come in and tell you to have a nice day when you leave. Okay, so sometimes they give you dirty looks, but I can deal with that...