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...have to be scaled back. But calamity is not exactly imminent. The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service recently found that the Pentagon could finance the war at least through the end of June by shifting existing funds. Then there's the so-called "Feed and Forage" Act, a Civil War--era law that lets the President incur debt, without congressional approval, for such wartime troop expenses as "clothing, subsistence, fuel, quarters, transportation and medical supplies...
...range of horror films (Black Christmas), stories of teen angst (Porky's) and bad musicals (Rhinestone, starring Sylvester Stallone). But the cinematic gift Bob Clark will be remembered for is A Christmas Story, a warm and playful tale of the holiday-time highs and lows of a '40s-era boy intent on receiving an "official Red Ryder carbine-action, 200-shot, range-model air rifle." Clark, whose cult classic is now shown annually around the clock on TBS, was 67, and was killed, along with his son Ariel, 22, when a drunken driver struck his car head...
AIRWOLF Not an automobile, Airwolf was, like KITT, a product of SDI-era techno-lust. "The Lady," a civilian Bell 222, was later sold to a German firm and used as an air ambulance. It crashed in 1991, killing three passengers...
Word of mouth has been around for ages--"Try the apple," said Eve--and it continues to prove resilient. Even in the era of MySpace, some 90% of word of mouth still happens off-line, according to research by both P&G and the consultancy Keller Fay Group. Breaking it down, Keller Fay found that 18% of word-of-mouth marketing took place on the phone, and 72% face to face, despite the ubiquity of electronic communication. Or perhaps because of it. Inundated by marketing messages, says Tremor CEO Steve Knox, "consumers have gone back to their most trusted source...
...hospitality industry hasn't exactly been a hotbed of innovation. There have been some new ideas over the decades, it is true. In 1952, for example, Kemmons Wilson built the first Holiday Inn and revolutionized American motels by introducing standardization and emphasizing cleanliness and value. The era of the big convention-oriented hotels checked in during the 1970s. And in 1984, New York City nightclub entrepreneur Ian Schrager came up with the boutique hotel concept. But for the most part, the basic business model has changed little: sell travelers perfectly acceptable yet generic places to stay for the night...