Word: stupider
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...driving around in a condom. A pedestrian stares at Ali's car, looking like she's already had a scoop or six. "How about this deal, Ali?" I ask. "You get paid $400 to drive around doing nothing, and I get paid to ask you stupid questions?" It's America, says a smiling Ali, who grew up in Iran. "That's why people come here." He hits the gas, and we're like two nuts in a speeding sundae, selling, selling, selling...
...Tobacco and their attorneys get called a lot of things, but stupid - or suicidal - is rarely one of them. How, then, to explain the tactics industry lawyers used during and after their latest legal battle, tactics that incensed the very jurors charged with setting a price tag on tobacco's defeat...
Priceline, the company most renowned for reintroducing William Shatner to prime time, has come to represent both what is transformative and what is just plain annoying about the Web. Think of any overhyped Web term or concept: disintermediation. The auction economy. Virtual communities. Stupid TV spots. Priceline, based in Norwalk, Conn., is a poster child for these and other new- economy cliches, especially the one about how it doesn't need to make money today because it will make tons of it someday. Next year. Maybe...
...probably not terribly surprised and I don't mean that I think they are stupid," said Brett Flehinger, a senior history lecturer. "I don't throw my hands up at it. [Students] don't think about it on a daily basis...
...consulting business with no regrets. Her only beef is with venture capitalists, the moneymen who she believes are responsible for most dotcom failures. She thinks they push sites into an early grave by forcing them to become too big, too fast. "I've been burned by the culture of stupid growth that VCs have fostered," she says. "Some businesses ought to grow organically. You can't just add water and expect to compete in the mass market...