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...Dornbush's experience explains the second fundamental change Obama has brought to politics: his campaign was built from the bottom up. Even fund raising, once the realm of the richest in politics, became a grassroots organizational tool. At nearly every event this year, Team Obama set up little tabletop trinket shops, known as "chum stores" because all those little Obama-branded doodads aren't only keepsakes; they are also bait. Every person who buys a button or hat is recorded as a campaign donor. But the real goal of the chum operations was building a list of workers, supporters...
...made $125 million of operating income, and it has been in loss ever since. Why? Globalization. This is the biggest tabletop company in the world. We've got fantastic brands. Just to humor you, we've got No. 1 Waterford, No. 2 Wedgwood, No. 3 Royal Doulton; the subbrands, you've got Versace and Bulgari and Jasper Conran and Emeril Lagasse. And we have just signed up with Robert Mondavi, so we will have a completely different type of Waterford. Waterford Wedgwood will be a very profitable business in eight to 12 months...
...sort of a strange combination to be in tabletops and newsprint. What is the common denominator? That's the question. There is enormous loyalty to regional brands in the newspaper business; there is enormous loyalty to brands in the tabletop business. Brands protect you from becoming a commodity. So avoid commoditization at all costs. And that is the common thread to all of those...
...fire: bright light, they thought, might drive a laboring Anne insane, and locals construed the birth of her twins as the result of "inordinate sexual desire." When Anne's son died at age 11, perhaps of cerebral palsy, mourners carried his body through town on a tabletop. Respectful townspeople laid down their tools as the procession, led by Anne, passed...
Milan looks like a large, expensive toy--or maybe a dedicated virtual finger-painting workstation--but Microsoft and its partners have been very shrewd about coming up with practical applications. For example, place a Bluetooth-enabled digital camera on the tabletop. Milan recognizes the camera, wirelessly sucks out your photos and displays them on the tabletop in a stack. Anybody sitting around the table can then pass the photos around and even stretch and shrink them, iPhone-style. Or imagine the Milan as a restaurant table: diners sort through a tabletop menu, dragging and dropping appetizers and entrées, swapping...