Jason Asaeda, a retailing analyst with Standard & Poor's, said that Macy's had benefited from selling the same well-known brands — including Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein and Liz Claiborne — for years, because customers knew a good deal on those labels when they saw it.
When consumers are overwhelmed with choices, some experts argue, they all tend to buy the same well-known thing.
Having read both books in succession, with their thorough use of the same well-known and well-loved quotes from the novels and letters, only reminds the reader how inexhaustible Austen is.
In the old days of the Metropolitan Opera's Saturday afternoon radio broadcasts, a popular feature on the "Texaco Opera Quiz," as the intermission show used to be called, involved playing recordings of several artists singing the same well-known aria and asking the panelists to identify the singers.
In another quirk to the latest deal, two members of the same well-known family in the world of technology were on opposite sides of the negotiating table: Didi's president, Jean Liu, is the daughter of Liu Chuanzhi, the Chinese founder of the largest computer maker in the world, Lenovo.
While most TV panel shows (including to some extent even QI) gravitate to putting in the same well-known comedy faces, you get a lot more interesting stuff by mixing it up a bit.
But in the way it engages mass and individual enthusiasms and kaleidoscopically refracts the source material, focusing so many different points of view back on the same, well-known object, it is also exhilarating and beautiful.
And we have to stop referring only to the same well-known handful of women in tech (unfortunately, Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer are not representative of most women in technology), when there are so many other great role models to extoll, who come from a variety of backgrounds (Julie Larsor-GRuchior Ruchi Sanghvi, anyone?).
This recommendation is based on the same well-known concepts that have guided the interpretation of phenytoin plasma concentration measurements when plasma proteins differ from normal [ 33, 34].
Although estimates for the potential production of unknown novel molecules by Streptomyces spp. [ 22] were high, the reality is that species spread widely in different environments produce the same well-known and structurally related antibacterial molecules.
