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...candy sellers that are unabashedly hawking such Proustian moments. Sales are booming: Groovy Candies' have risen from $50,000 to $3 million since the company was started in 1998. And it's not just candy. With the power of the Internet, other purveyors of childhood memories are resurrecting '50s-era toys and games, including wooden alphabet blocks with old-fashioned lettering and Fisher-Price Snoopy pull toys. They're also experiencing a surge in demand for best sellers from the 1940s like Slinkys, Nok Hockey and Uncle Wiggily. "The pendulum has swung back to these classic playthings," says...
...boomers, it has reached new heights of industrial sophistication. They grew up at a time when there was an explosion of culture and products designed especially for them, and [those products are] easily resurrected." In fact, some experts say, these reminders of childhood may be so appealing because that era was--at least until the boomers started raising their own kids--the most child-centered in history. "Industry and communities focused on these cherished progeny," notes Purdue University family-studies scholar Karen Fingerman. "Communities built schools to educate them, and toy companies generated trinkets to amuse them...
...more telling phenomenon. The Democrats hope that come Election Day, this perfect storm of discontent will stir a giant wave to sweep the G.O.P. out of the majority. In a recent presentation to top Democrats, pollster Cornell Belcher said the party has its best chance since the Reagan era to win slices of the electorate that have come to be identified with the G.O.P. base, including churchgoers, young white men and Southern men. Frank Newport, editor in chief of the Gallup Poll, sees conditions ripe for an electoral tsunami but says it depends on "whether Democrats can take advantage...
...very new business era" says Meyer. "I'm convinced that this is now a hospitality economy, no longer the service era. If you simply have a superior product or deliver on your promises, that's not enough to distinguish your business. There will always be someone else who can do it or make it as well as you. It's how you make your customers feel while using your products that distinguishes you." He points to companies like the Container Store, Timberland and Jet Blue, thriving enterprises that he claims share his philosophical approach to business. "Yes, they have...
...employers, internships provide a pool of raw but talented labor from which they can cherry-pick the best and brightest. Among college interns, 90% report job offers from their employers, says CareerExposure.com. Employers rank students' internships and job experiences above grade-point averages in hiring - not surprising in an era when companies from Lockheed Martin to NASA have to engage etiquette trainers to teach new hires just how to shake hands...