Word: collections
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best job of helping them find stuff. But what if they use his site for research, then go elsewhere for the cheapest price? Bezos has considered that as well. And he has a possible solution: "Membership clubs!" he says. "If you want to see all the information we collect on Amazon--the customer reviews, the professional reviews and use our agenting technology--you have to pay $30 a year." Those membership fees would be used to help drive down the price of items, which would be sold almost at cost. Nonmembers could shop there, of course. They just wouldn...
...given moment). Poke around and you'll come across the impressively old (dinosaur teeth!), the bizarrely new (who really needs to bid on last month's TV Guide?) and the just plain weird (anyone for a metal BEWARE OF ATTACK RATS sign?). And you will find thriving subcultures that collect things you didn't know anyone bothered to collect. Really, people: antique waffle irons...
...group is trying to collect 100,000 signatures on a petition protesting high rents and home prices, which they say are increasing evictions and homelessness in Cambridge. The group plans to deliver the petition to Massachusetts Gov. A. Paul Cellucci in March...
...between choruses of "Cambridge Tenants Rise" (to the tune of "Jingle Bells"), group members with picket signs stopped pedestrians to explain their cause, hand out pamphlets and collect signatures...
...they are. Patricia DePooter, whose son Corey had always wanted to be a Marine, helps the Corps collect toys and other gifts for impoverished kids. Linda Sanders, who says all the support from across the nation "has restored my faith in humanity," has written 1,700 thank-you cards, but she's worried she's missed some people. Next fall the Mausers plan to adopt a baby girl from China...