With its slick marketing plan, reservation roots and list of healthy ingredients, the Tanka bar could be the first national break-out product made on a reservation.
Having visited hundreds of businesses and their executives, I can attest first-hand to the simple truth that, on average and nearly always, the probability of success rests on the talents of the executives a whole lot more than on the clever idea, the patent or a slick business plan.
And it was fitting that Dr. Dre was the mad doctor of this resurrection, as his career stands right on the fault line between the scritch-scratch D.J. culture of old-school hip-hop and the era of the producer, whose slick sounds are planned in advance in the comfort of a multitrack studio.
His political team, which includes battle-scarred veterans from the political machines of both Newt Gingrich and Willie Brown, the mayor of San Francisco, plans a slick campaign, complete with a marketing mascot to be known as V-man.Michigan's "Kids First!
The idea of an overly slick performance, and excessive forward planning, pre-Valentine's Day is somehow unappealing.
The McCain campaign barely avoided stepping on a campaign banana peel, or oil slick as it were, reportedly planning a Gulf Coast oil rig photo op as a 30 mile stretch of Mississippi was shut down from a barge split in two by a tanker last night.
The students planned to watch Slick Rick, a hip-hop artist, on Sunday night via an Ethernet connection.
She is also a contributor to "The Slick Boys: A 10-Point Plan to Rescue Your Community by Three Chicago Cops Who Are Making It Happen" (Simon & Schuster, 1998).
Mr. Smith is an amateur herpetologist with big plans for this slick, full-color magazine stuffed with razor-sharp images of snake-necked turtles, legless lizards, giant hornets and the seldom seen ridge-nosed rattlesnake and articles with headlines like "The Joy of Toads" and "Along Came a Spider".
The resistance to capital once played out on the center stage of planning was replaced with slick images, portraying a city of consumption and growth.
