Sublime

Or consider the line drawn by Mr. Jaffe at the candy store around our corner—a line so well understood by his customers and by other storekeepers too that they can spend their whole lives in its presence and never think about it consciously. One ordinary morning last winter, Mr. Jaffe, whose formal business name is Bernie, and his wife, whose forma

In so cyclical an industry as aviation, in which tiny changes in interest rates and fuel prices and macroeconomic conditions have a huge effect on the bottom line, VEP gave Borman a stunning management advantage. It turned his employees, in essence, into Eastern’s bankers, enabling him to borrow tens of millions of dollars from them—unsecured, not

DERRICK JENSEN (This article first appeared in the March 2003 issue of the Ecologist, www.theecologist.org)

he helped start a research group called MIDAS, which stood for Mining Data at Stanford.

GM borrowed customers from its future sales and sold those people cars at deep discounts.

They promote internal networking.

Cities whose economic-development strategy is a corporate-capture strategy are typically those whose economic development director and planning director don’t talk to each other. The smart cities, like Lowell, hire a director of planning and development, who is first charged with creating a city where people want to be. Rather than trying to land n

firm whose practice-mix was made up predominantly of clients who, rather than needing the profession’s most creative talent, wanted to find a firm that had accumulated experience in handling certain types of problems, and would not take an expensive “start with a blank sheet of paper” approach to the problem.

foreshadow a future filled with the seductively colonizing commodities of American modernity.