Word: cheapness
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...linchpin of Palmisano's strategy is Big Blue's services business, which already accounts for about half the company's revenue. By shrewdly purchasing PWC's consulting business on the cheap at the bottom of the market--only a couple of years after HP had considered buying it for five times the price--Palmisano acquired a wealth of industry-and-process expertise, as well as a valuable Rolodex of high-level CEOs and CFOs who increasingly make big IT purchasing decisions...
...evolution of celebritus americanus, akin to the day Neanderthal man first came face to face with the Cro-Magnon: reality stars, and at least the lower tier of "real" celebrities, have become indistinguishable. As reality TV has turned the likes of Richard Hatch and Kelly Clarkson into cheap, commodified and replaceable mini-celebs, the culture of celebrity has changed. "In Hollywood," says David Perler, executive producer of reality show My Life Is a Sitcom, "I go out to dinner with friends, and they'll say, 'You'll never believe who I saw at the movie theater.' You expect...
...takes a fleet of 20 jets just to keep management in touch. Its headquarters force, 10,000 strong, lately includes a group of artists whose sole function is to design logos and labels and fulfill other graphic needs. That's quite an indulgence for a company so comically cheap that it still puts tin coin boxes next to its coffee pots, demanding 10?...
...ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Top 10 Celebrity Excuses. "Crack is cheap. I make too much money to use crack." Whitney Houston, on why crack is not among the drugs she has admitted using, snagged...
...appear to do so. And technology is boosting the attractiveness of green products ranging from clean fuel-cell engines to pillows stuffed with a synthetic fiber derived not from oil but from corn. Even as the White House and Congress show little movement away from the U.S. policy of cheap and subsidized coal and petroleum, smart U.S. companies--especially those that operate globally--are investing in new green technologies and in ways of making their old operations cleaner and more energy efficient...