If you get there first, you'll lead the pack, right? Not necessarily! The skill-sets of most established companies, say strategy experts Constantinos Markides & Paul Geroski, are far better suited to scaling up newly created markets pioneered by others (in other words, being "fast seconds") than to creating these markets from scratch. ...

Collection of three spinoff series' based on sketch comedy programme The Fast Show. Series 1 & 2 of Swiss Toni follow the silk-suited, be-quiffed used car salesman as he struggles to learn to drive under his wife Ruth's tutelage & battles with Geoff, his heavily alcoholic employee. Series 1 of Grass sees knowitall gangland figure Billy Bleach forced into exile after snitching on a fellow villain. Billy inevitably struggles to settle into rural village life. Series 1 of Ted & Ralph follows the fortunes of sexually repressed landowner Ralph as he endeavours to become more than friends with Ted, the Irish factor of his estate. A heterosexual dabble & planned marriage to the unusual Wendy further complicate an already fraught relationship. ...

The complete first series of the popular comedy sketch show. Features Ted & Ralph, Channel 9 News, Unluck Alf, coughing Bob Fleming, Ron Manager, the ' Suits you' tailors, Tommy Cockles, The Fat Sweaty Coppers, & Professor Denzil Dexter. Paul Whitehouse stars. ...

With a unique focus on the capabilities of fast spectrum reactors to address nuclear waste transmutation issues, this book describes how fast spectrum reactors contribute to the global nuclear renaissance while minimizing nuclear proliferation concerns. ...

This cult high school comedy gave early screen exposure to Sean Penn & Jennifer Jason Leigh, as well as a directorial debut to Amy Heckerling (' Look Who's Talking', ' Clueless'). Whilst Stacy (Leigh) & Mark look for love, spurred on by their older schoolmates Linda & Mike, stoner Jeff (Penn) attempts to evade the clutches of the ever vigilant principal Mr H&. Rock journalist Cameron Crowe (later director of ' Jerry Maguire') provides the script, & the soundtrack features the likes of The Go-Gos, Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty. ...

Back in the United States after an enforced exile, & ensconced in a new home on Big Pine Mountain in North Carolina, Myra, Kathryn, Annie, Alexis, Isabelle, Yoko, & Nikki are breathing easy at last
- but not for long. One dark night, under cover of a vicious storm, a helicopter lands on their mountain.
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