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Want to increase your profit margin? Forget those market studies. Trash the upscale ad campaign. Fire your spin doctors. And start listening to those silent consumers who never queue up in front of the case register: the shoplifters...

Author: By R.i. Wilson, | Title: LICENSE TO STEAL | 2/10/1994 | See Source »

...then Bear guard Brian Lloyd flew a wild elbow at Crimson sophomore Mike Gilmore after Gilmore had fouled him on a rebound attempt, and both teams rushed down to the scene, hurling a fair amount of trash talk at each other...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: M. Cagers Beat Brown in Rough Game | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

What Colon didn't know was that the vote she cast in the booth was her second; the form she had signed to remove the trash was actually an absentee ballot. She was not alone. While state and federal investigators dropped their probes last month into charges of suppression of black voters in New Jersey's gubernatorial race, a voting-fraud scandal roared to life in Pennsylvania. Republicans claim that in a special election last fall to fill a vacancy in the state senate, hundreds of voters in the mostly blue-collar second district of Pennsylvania were tricked into casting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is This Seat Stolen? | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

Meanwhile, next week Marks will be suing Stinson in federal court to overthrow the election results. In the meantime, while Republicans refuse to call him senator, Stinson continues to vote. As for Colon, she declares, "I'll never vote again." And the trash heap next to her backyard continues to grow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is This Seat Stolen? | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

...significantly improved on Xerox's work. In Smalltalk, for example, all commands are executed through pop-up menus. On the Mac, users can reach right into cyberspace and manipulate documents directly, grabbing a file with a mouse, dragging it across the screen and dropping it into a folder or trash can. Much of the genius of the Mac -- its look and feel -- is in the accumulation of such details: the pinstripes across the top of a window; the gray tint in the scroll bar; the way an icon zooms to fill the screen when a new program is opened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Mac Changed the World | 1/31/1994 | See Source »

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