{"id":391177,"date":"2010-03-04T22:01:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T03:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/?p=11572"},"modified":"2010-03-04T22:01:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T03:01:02","slug":"toyota-clean-teeth-expensive-comics-and-more-trouble-for-tiger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/391177","title":{"rendered":"Toyota, Clean Teeth, Expensive Comics and More Trouble For Tiger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>*That was an  unfortunate choice.<\/strong> You&rsquo;ve got to feel sorry for Anna Bernasek, a writer who labored for months  over a new book on the importance of <strong>trust<\/strong> in building a business. The company she used as her prime example in <em>The Economics of Integrity<\/em>? Toyota. Bet that one won&rsquo;t  make the best-seller list.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Big Brusher is  watching. <\/strong>The  Department of Early Education &amp; Care in Massachusetts is taking a bold stand in  favor of proper oral hygiene. As of the first of the year, any child who spends  more than four hours in day care, and\/or is given a meal there is required to  brush his teeth on site. Wonder how long before some busy-body adds flossing to  the list?<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Bet you wish you&rsquo;d  saved yours.<\/strong> Did you see the news that two different comic books just sold for $1 million  each? Twelve days ago a private buyer paid $1 million for a pristine copy of  Action Comics No. 1, the 1938 comic that introduced the world to Superman. Five  days later, another anonymous buyer snatched up Detective Comics No. 27 for  $1,075,000. That&rsquo;s the one in 1939 where Batman made his first appearance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Tiger&rsquo;s troubles  continue. <\/strong>His  much ballyhooed public apology hasn&rsquo;t been enough to stem the defections for  Tiger Woods. Gatorade has dropped him as a sponsor. And even General Motors has  said it will no longer provide free automobiles to the superstar golfer. At  least Nike hasn&rsquo;t stripped him of his swoosh &hellip; yet.<\/p>\n<p><em>&mdash;Chip Wood <\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*That was an unfortunate choice. You&rsquo;ve got to feel sorry for Anna Bernasek, a writer who labored for months over a new book on the importance of trust in building a business. The company she used as her prime example in The Economics of Integrity? Toyota. Bet that one won&rsquo;t make the best-seller list. *Big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}