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...would fail. Thais don't eat cheese. Thais don't eat bread. And so Thais certainly won't eat pizza, they reasoned. More than 100 pizza restaurants and a cheese factory later, Heinecke has proved them wrong. (It turns out Thais do eat pizza, only they like to squirt ketchup all over it.) Capitalizing on Asia's new appetite for Western trends in food, fashion and entertainment, Heinecke morphed a single chain into the Bangkok-based Minor Group, a $300 million conglomerate of hotels, fast-food outlets and clothing franchises. But now the empire is under threat, and the challenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's the Big Cheese? | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

Normally, this column space tried to avoid ragging on the officiating, but Dan Murphy should be demoted to the squirt league for his job in this game. Not only did he engage in the traditional ECAC practice of makeup calls, but his incessant use of the whistle denied almost any flow to these games. Moreover, when Jelenic went over to taunt Jonas and sophomore defenseman Aaron Kim came over to keep him in line, Murphy did the right thing by assessing Jelenic a misconduct, but he failed to give him a minor penalty. Therefore, Yale was rewarded by the sequence...

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The 'V' Spot: One Moore Trip to Placid | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...town prodigy called the Professor by his high school buddies, had wrought one of the best-selling toys ever: the Super Soaker, a pump-action water gun capable of streaming water 50 feet. In the 12 years since he first got U.S. Patent No. 4,591,071 for the "squirt gun," as it is listed in official government records, more than 200 million Super Soakers have been sold. Revenue estimates for the gun range as high as $400 million. "Lonnie is the American success story," says Dick Apley, director of independent inventor programs for the U.S. Patent Office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soaking In Success | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

Instead, it was up to the offensive line to make holes for the miniscule Palazzo to squirt through. Not only did they succeed in that respect, but the field was so wide open that the speedy Palazzo gained 55 yards in the second quarter alone. Those yards relieved Rose of having...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Ra-Hooligan: Gotta Give Credit to That O-Line | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

Harvard's best chance to send the contest to overtime came as time was expiring. Steve Moore launched a desperation shot from the blueline that managed to squirt through Burt's legs and trickled wide...

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cornell Bounces M. Hockey | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

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