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When the gurus at venerable staplermaker Swingline woke up to a sharp business reality in 2001--market share had declined from 65% in the mid-1990s to 60% by the end of the decade--they opted for a measured and scientific response: research. For three years, they plumbed the psyches of stapler users, surveying 2,867 people online and sending four-person teams into the offices of 54 individually selected companies to see how their products were used. "We noticed the nuances of their stapling habits. We saw where they kept their staples and their removers," said Jacklyn Gyoerkoe, marketing...
...last] time I woke up with that feeling was the one year anniversary of my dad’s death,” wrote Rojas in an e-mail. “Then I spent the day very ill, both times, for some reason. Connection? Who knows? Just one last joke from Deuce...
...that has never been Perot's style. Says Dennis Weyl, former chairman of the United We Stand chapter in Colorado: "Despite the rhetoric, it's still Perot's agenda. It has nothing to do with the members." Says Anne Saucier, secretary of the group's Ohio chapter: "He woke us up and made us a force, and then he became scared...
...rather say I saw Phineas Gage’s skull or a castle this weekend than that I woke up in a pool of my own vomit on someone’s floor,” he says. “There’s also an interesting thing about traveling and going to somewhere...
...student body woke up today missing two of its members, and their absence was felt throughout the day and across campus…Even in such a large student body, the loss of a single student is felt throughout,” the BU Daily Free Press wrote in an editorial published yesterday. “And the loss of two will not soon heal...