Word: towns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite such exuberance, Lewis has a knack for making her success sound accidental. "I didn't have a business plan," she says. "I just put one foot in front of the other." And speaking of Las Vegas, "all you have to do to make money in this town is show...
ROUND-THE-WORLD SNACK ATTACK A small-town firm sells toothsome cowboy chic...
...most measures, Minong, Wis., is anything but cosmopolitan. It is a town of 520 people in the north woods, too small to have a movie theater or even a stoplight. Yet it is the home of a genuine multinational: Link Snacks, Inc., which rings up export sales of as much as $12 million a year to more than a dozen countries and stations sales representatives in Tokyo, Moscow and Regina, Saskatchewan, as well as Minneapolis, Minn. Not bad, considering 1) the company was in Chapter 11 only 10 years ago; and 2) its products--meat snacks, especially beef jerky...
...growing faster, though, and the company is eyeing Costa Rica, Malaysia and Nicaragua as potential new markets. Within two years, it expects exports to account for 25% of total sales. All of which Jay Link sometimes finds hard to believe. Says he: "For us to come out of a town in the north woods and make it worldwide has been somewhat of an amazement to me." --Reported by Marc Hequet/St. Paul...
...Branum printed the name of CHELSEA CLINTON'S dorm and told his fellow Berkeley students to "show your spirit on Chelsea's bloodied carcass." Go, team! The Secret Service, however, didn't find those words so inspiring and instead bum-rushed Branum's dorm while they were in town for a Hillary Clinton speaking engagement. Agent Chris Van Holt showed up on campus to check Branum's medical records and search his room--and the spunky undergrad taped the entire proceeding. "I want to make sure you don't have any weapons or any of the stuff that...