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...logs better known for setting the mood than heating the house, prepared for winter by stocking 20% more inventory in its warehouses than the firm thought it would need. With weather affecting its average sales volume up to 15%, Duraflame couldn't afford to miss out on a cold snap. But unseasonably mild weather in one part of the country could mean inventory would sit useless for weeks. At the time, Duraflame executives made short-term decisions based on a daily USA Today weather map plastered to an office wall...
...venture further into the deep waters of technology, temptations increase. When it comes to temptation resistance, we are admittedly not at the top of our game in early 2000. This is an age of moral confusion. We love to talk about law; we hate morality talk. But we will snap out of this dive, as we have snapped out of others before. Among our characteristic American obsessions, two have been prominent since 1776--our technological inventiveness and our stubborn desire to know and do what is right...
When Bruce M. Haggerty'00, co-producer of Jewel, snapped his fingers out of sync with a drum roll, Crystal shared some of his experience as six- time Oscar host extraordinare. The duo practiced delivering the punch line snap in time with a drum roll, with Haggerty mimicking Crystal's professional style...
...throne after his father's death last year, is intent on doing the nation's business in unusual ways. Hence the getups. Ten times in disguise--ranging from a TV reporter to a sick patient--but also frequently without it, the King has plunged into his domain on snap inspection missions. What he discovers--civil servants drinking tea, gossiping and knocking off early as they give their countrymen endless runarounds--has him axing useless officials and groaning about the bloated bureaucracy when he gets home...
Squaring off against one of its biggest ECAC rivals, Harvard was poised to snap its three-game losing streak in conference last Friday at Bright Hockey Center. But a rejuvenated Big Red team, looking to surmount its own five-game slump, emerged as the victor, handing the Crimson a demoralizing 6-2 loss...