Most frequently requested kitchen color in the midwest, according to a recent survey by the National Kitchen & Bath Association: almond. Color nobody anywhere, ever, asks for in their kitchen: gray.
Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites »
I’m sorry, Fishkin, but we’ve decided that you have a great future in some field other than sales. Evanston “intuitive training consultant” Ruth Berger’s instructions on how to sort sales leads: “Place the leads face down on a table. Put one sales lead in the palm of your left hand and place your right hand over the paper. Close your eyes to shut out all visual distractions. Rub the fingers of your right hand lightly back and forth over the paper. Note any physical feelings in your right hand, such as hot, cold, tingling, good, bad. Imagine which pile the lead should be placed in: to your left–the hot leads. In the middle–the medium leads. On your right–the cold leads. Do not check for accuracy until you’ve completed all the leads.” Uh-huh: and if you have some way to check for accuracy, just call the best ones up first and save some time.
Our part. Names of three Chicago-area companies appear in the Consumer’s Guide to Planet Earth, a listing of firms “which offer environmentally oriented products and services”: E.L. Foust Co., Inc., of Evanston (high-efficiency air purifiers constructed without plastics); Porcher, Inc., of Chicago (toilets that use only 1.6 gallons of water per flush instead of the usual 5 to 7); and Green Earth Natural Foods of Evanston (organic foods).
Hey, some sacrifices are just too painful to even consider. From Harper’s “Index” (May 1990), “Average ratio of a CEO’s salary to that of a blue-collar worker at major Japanese automobile manufacturers: 20:1. Average ratio at major U.S. automobile manufacturers: 192:1.”
