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Continental Airlines left forty-seven passengers of a regional jet stranded overnight in Rochester, Minn. The Transportation Department imposed its first penalties for runway delays Tuesday, collecting $175,000 in fines. The agency said that Continental Airlines and its regional affiliate, ExpressJet Airlines, operating as Continental Express, had deceived passengers by promising, through a “Customer First” statement [...]

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And sometimes you get exactly what you asked for. I’ve often noted the lack of a cohesive calendar of what is happening locally; someplace that I could look to to see when the events that interest me are happening, and to keep abreast of what people are thinking and saying here. (Hmmm. Do people use [...]

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The dean of Harvard Medical School has some thoughts on pending healthcare reform: In discussions with dozens of health-care leaders and economists, I find near unanimity of opinion that, whatever its shape, the final legislation that will emerge from Congress will markedly accelerate national health-care spending rather than restrain it. Likewise, nearly all agree that [...]

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What kind of human error leads to creating congressional districts that don’t exist? Here’s a stimulus success story: In Arizona’s 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that’s what the Web site set up by the Obama administration to track the $787 billion [...]

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There are undoubtedly a number of reasons why people become entrepreneurs and create startups. But I am willing to bet that the number one reason is that they are pissed off about something. In fact, being pissed off is, I believe, the prime and most powerful motivator behind the creation of a startup. Tom Peters, [...]

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The House healthcare bill is 1990 pages long. The United States Constitution – the document on which the operation of the entire country is based? About 15 pages. If you can’t articulate what you want to accomplish in 15 pages, then you don’t really know what you want to accomplish. Or you do know, but [...]

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The Boston Globe gets right to the point: The first President Bush, taught from childhood to shun what his mother called “The Great I Am,’’ regularly instructed his speechwriters not to include too many “I’s’’ in his prepared remarks. Reagan maintained that there was no limit to what someone could achieve if he didn’t mind [...]

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The $787 billion stimulus bill was supposed to kickstart the economy and create jobs. The government needs people to believe that it actually did that, even if it didn’t. Yet it seems so easy to debunk their estimates of jobs created or saved. From the Boston Globe: Some of the errors are striking: The community [...]

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I never expected to write a headline like that, but everyone needs a little Anti Monkey Butt Powder now and then. Tip of the hat to Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants. Update: As Chris points out in the comments, Canadians can get their Anti Monkey Butt Powder at well.ca, Canada’s online drugstore. And no, I was [...]

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A couple of days ago, Adverstising Age publised an article by B.L.Ochman on Ten Things Social Media Can’t Do. The article is excellent and worth reading, but these are the things that social media can’t do: Substitute for marketing strategy. Succeed without top management buy-in. Be viewed as a short-term project. Produce meaningful, measurable results [...]

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