It's unexpected revenue, because people are just doing what they were always doing. It's not like a whole new market opened up. There's no behavioral change. It's just more money. |
It's yet to be proven that consumers read the fine print. |
One of the principal differences between the work that I have done at other places, either as a guest conductor or as a music director, and that of St. Louis is that I feel the biggest potential we have here is that we play the music with the type of emotional understanding that few other orchestras match. So while we're trying to come as close to technical perfection as human beings can, what we're really working on is trying to get the raison d'etre , the reason for being, of that music. |
People are going to continue to repay their credit card (balances). That means checks increasingly will become a means of repayment for everything people buy on their credit cards. |
Remember the 'Christmas Story' movie? You can shoot your eye out? |
Rewards are going to become more lucrative. They'll need to make their rewards beneficial and easily obtainable since they know the other guys are going to be offering the best reward package that they can muster. |
Richard said, 'I'm not choking him, it just looks like I am choking him. |
sense of being absolutely creative within the rules…. I tend not to think in terms of one mass of people that you unify, but rather as a field of play in which the inspiration might come from any group at any time, which then can be suddenly absorbed by the rest of the group. The reaction time feels instantaneous. You have music that none of you knew was going to be there before--and suddenly arrives. |
Statistics prove that teenage Internet gambling is the fastest growing addiction of the day, akin to drug and alcohol abuse in the 1930s, ... It's pernicious, it's evil, it's certainly one that feeds on those who are the weakest members of society -- and that's the young and the poor. |
The definition of big-time changed over the last five years and not even a retailer as big as Sears was big enough to own its own (credit card) business. |
The issuers are competing in a real slugfest for customers, and the rewards programs are at the center of it, |
The issuers are competing in a real slugfest for customers, and the rewards programs are at the center of it. |
The loss of the State Theater was the loss of a historic landmark, a cultural center, and a business destination that brought people down from Wilmington and all over the county. |
The more volume you run over a network, the better your pricing will be. |
the most gifted of the new generation of American conductors. |