The urge to recycle can blind executives to the commercial potential of material that is truly new: NBC, CBS, and Fox all turned down "The Sopranos," which became a huge hit on HBO this spring... Tells how ABC began to interfere in the creative process.
'E.R.' is derived from the likes of 'Medical Center.' 'Ally McBeal' is 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show.' " The urge to recycle can blind executives to the commercial potential of material that is truly new: NBC, CBS, and Fox all turned down "The Sopranos," which became a huge hit on HBO this spring.
"I've gone my whole life without getting hit by a car," said former Gov. David A. Paterson, a Harlem native and the state's first legally blind chief executive.
Consequently, it's hard not to believe there must be some threshold, some level of talent that exists which will blind NFL executives to the point they are willing to gamble on the limitless potential of a player with a troubled past.
"He is not going to be somebody who would be aggressive in the blind assertion of executive authority," observed Geoffrey Stone, a colleague of Mr. Obama's at the University of Chicago School of Law.
Ms. MacNab and Jay D. Adkisson, editor of Quatloos.com, a Web site devoted to revealing tax frauds, said charities saw little risk in participating in potentially fraudulent tax programs, failing to fill out their tax returns properly and turning a blind eye to executive excesses.
Somehow, a chief executive blind to the beauty of videogames developed an unmatched eye for spotting hits.
Blind's chief executive Sunguk Moon, who was copied on many of the emails with TechCrunch, did not comment or acknowledge the exposure.
(Consider recording industry executives' blind spot concerning the Internet back in the 1990s).
