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...heard a tape by a scuffling California punk-ska band called No Doubt. The band had been struggling since the late 1980s with little to show for it. Iovine recognized that No Doubt's alternative pop sound offered a fresh twist on rock, and that singer Gwen Stefani had star power. "All the pieces fit together, even if the music wasn't that far advanced," he says. "We felt they could be big, with a little work and grooming." Iovine and Interscope president Tom Whalley sharpened the band's songs and encouraged Stefani to take a much more prominent role...
Mullins said yesterday he had reduced the suspension because Joseph Stefani, the business agent of the union had convinced him to take into account Holcombe's "newness as a shop steward...
...Lately Stefani and his wife have taken to buying Princess Ortega heavy pan sets before union meetings, to use them as door prizes to entice people to come. If 50 people show up for a meeting, one of them gets the Princess Ortega; if less people come Stefani keeps it until the next meeting...
...Stefani likes to show the latest Princess Ortega heavy pan set to visitors, along with all the old photographs of union meetings, to show them what things have come to. The pans are new, shiny; they stand out against the heavy, scuffed atmosphere of the Local 186 office...
...Look," Stefani says. "Look what we bring to entice them to come to the meeting to get educated. Sure the meetings are dull. But hell, it's business...