Route 66, and route 66 became the destination. It was not like, dad, can we go to the beach in california, it was more like, dad, lets go down route 66, because all the fun stuff is there. Its like a big, long amusement park. Get your kicks on route 66 in albuquerque, new mexico. One of the places youll see next weekend as booktv, American History tv and cspans local content vehicles look behind the scenes at the history and literary life in albuquerque march 2nd and 3rd on cspan2 and 3. Up next on booktv, after words with this weeks guest host, Stephanie Mehta of fortune magazine. This week former ceo of at T Ed Whitacre discusses his book, american turn around. In the book he tells the story of rising through the ranks of business to lead one of the nations Largest Telecommunications companies and being called on by president obama to rescue General Motors. This program is about an hour. HosT Ed Whitacre has run two iconic american companies, at t and General Motors. He is also the a
Hi, everyone, im jj ramberg and welcome to your business. The show dedicated to helping your Small Business grow. We all know that meeting a deadline can sometimes make or break a business. But when the pressure is on and the due date cannot be moved, how do you keep calm and do your best work . Last month we went down to mobile, alabama for mardi gras to find out how the men and women behind all that noisy merry making get everything done on time. Its show time . It is so show time. Everyone here is feeling the pressure because they know, you know, if we dont make a deadline, whats that going to mean . Are we going to lose a contract. Theres always a deadline, nothing but a deadline. Steve and ron are used to High Pressure deadlines. Im working seven days a week, 10, 12 hours a day, trying to get some sleep. Its a good time to lose weight. Steve is the owner of merth company. He builds these enormous Mardi Gras Parade floats in mobile, alabama. This season he and his staff completed a
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released a statement earlier this week which says, unlike most olympic teams around the world the u.s. olympic team is privately funded and we re grateful for the support of our sponsors. we re proud of our partnership with ralph lauren, an iconic american committee and excited to watch america s finest athletes compete at the upcoming games in london. and ralph lauren, we reached out for comment. they told me they are not giving any statement about this, soledad. i was e-mailing with someone inside the company at ralph lauren, when i first told the person i was doing the story, the person said, is the story also focusing on the other olympic sponsors who do not manufacturer in the usa? when i said this is a story about ralph lauren and its uniforms being made in china, this person added so an athletes winning a medal not wearing products from the usa is okay? ralph lauren does not make the products for the athletes while competing or on the paodium. and that s going to be