Word: processing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...boldly took IBM--and the world--into the computer age, and in the process developed a company whose awesome sales and service savvy and dark-suited culture stood for everything good and bad about corporate America. No wonder the Justice Department sought (unsuccessfully) to break...
Walker's grooming products, she insisted, did not "straighten" hair--even then, a politically controversial process--but she also sold a "hot comb," which did in fact straighten kinky hair, consciously tapping into a racial aesthetic that favored Caucasian features over "African" physical characteristics. Such celebrities as Nat King Cole, Sugar Ray Robinson and Michael Jackson would become cases in point. Walker's products, aided by before-and-after ads that rivaled anything Madison Avenue would invent, made their way into virtually every black home...
...Moran client. Moran managed to hire a crew and repaired to Central Park for lift-off, his kite handlers and the undersize pilots sporting snappy uniforms and caps saying MORAN AERIAL ADVERTISING SERVICE. The day was fine, the winds conducive. But as the crew was in the process of getting the first pilot airborne, the authorities intervened. A cop asked Moran if he had a permit. Moran did not. A dispute ensued, and the parties removed to a police station. Upon his release some hours later, Moran immediately called a press conference. "It's a sad day for American capitalism...
...unpleasant truth is that corporate America depends on a steady supply of ugly people like me, people who know they won't survive by their looks alone. The cruel irony is that genetic engineers--themselves products of this smartening process--are threatening to dry up our wellspring of scientists and technologists--and the people who draw cartoons about them...
With the 1998 holiday season poised to bring in $2.3 billion in online sales (according to Jupiter Communications), it's the perfect time to simplify the payment process. The new eWallet from idealab! in Pasadena, Calif., eliminates the need to fill out online forms one at a time. It stores all your billing and shipping information in a secure file on your hard drive, then automatically enters the relevant data on each form that you use. It's free at ewallet.com...