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...mature business. His critical insight was an ability to define exactly what business Coke was in--a task that is far harder than you think. For instance, he taught his executives that when they set goals for market share, they needed to focus on the share of stomach, not the share of carbonated beverages. His adversary was water, not soda. By this definition, Coke's 40%-plus market share became 3%, changing the company's view of growth. He then redefined the term global for a company that was already seemingly everywhere. By 1997 he pushed Coke's overseas profits...
...stomach is still a little puffy. There are no marks on it, but I can bunch it up in my hands," is the first hint we get that the unnamed letter writer has been pregnant. By the time she tells her doctor dad that she had a baby and put it up for adoption, she knows his secret: the "specials," as he calls some of his patients, are young women who have traveled long distances to get illegal abortions. From there, the father-daughter ironies gather for a stoic conclusion...
...Neither the administration nor the Republicans have the stomach for the profound cultural changes required to meet Kyoto's targets. "We're the environmental bad guys," says Elmer-DeWitt. "We need a fundamental rethink about how we produce and consume energy." After all, who'd want to be the candidate telling Americans they'll have to trade in their SUVs for battery-powered cars...
During Anderson's first year, after sufferingfrom stomach pains and throwing up after meals formonths, she became extremely dehydrated one nightand went...
...past decade, Collins, 31, a Belvidere, Ill., health-care worker, has been hospitalized at least once a year for the self-injury that scars her arms, legs and stomach. Her boyfriend of eight years left her, saying her self-mutilation made him miserable; most of her friends have dropped her. A few months ago, she cut herself so badly that she was soaked in blood at the end of a five-minute ambulance ride. "But I didn't want to die," she explains. "What people didn't understand was this was my way of staying alive...