How the dog worked this magic between hikes, table begging, sock stealing and keeping us up at night with his snoring is a mystery I still can't explain.
Vohs and colleagues went on to test the next obvious question – how exactly do rituals work this magic?
Alas, the competition can work this magic, too, and can, moreover, sell the portal-management software in a huge package that includes lots of other applications (for managing customers, employees, inventory and so on).
The tagine (pronounced tah-ZHEEN) has worked this kind of magic for centuries in North Africa.
BCG analysed 32 companies that had been bought and sold by European private-equity firms before the crunch: more than half of the uptick in the value of these companies was due to higher sales and margins.Whether private-equity firms can work this kind of magic in financial institutions remains uncertain, however.
But let's face it: no winning streak goes on forever, and even with Alan Greenspan working his magic, this expansion is vulnerable on a number of fronts.
Home sales, retail sales, auto sales, oil and other commodity prices, the CPI, the PPI, the Baltic Freight Index and the stock market are all signaling that this money is working its magic.
Frustratingly enough, this plan was working its magic, and shamefully enough, it was working on me.
The Mata Haris were working their magic.
Maybe Martin is working his magic.
