Word: months
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ERICA BRAY, 20, a junior at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, wrote this week's story on nonprofit holiday shopping. She is wrapping up her TIME internship in New York City this month...
...poll released this month by the Center for a New American Dream shows that such holiday breakdowns are more common than I thought. Among the 1,015 who were surveyed, 58% are trying to "reconnect with the joyfulness of the holiday," by cutting down on their consumption. It is counterintuitive at this time of year to concentrate on doing less for our families, but redirecting that holiday energy offers real rewards. Families that manage it will have fewer toys but more time, less debt and more satisfaction...
...cell phone with its fiddly little buttons, or a pda (personal digital assistant) with a neat little stylus and large screen? The best answer this year was the Palm VII, which gives you a smorgasbord of e-mail, news, sports and stock tickers, all for $9.99 a month. By the way, it's also an organizer...
...Sadly, the ferrets are not O.K. Last month one of Tyson's assistants, sensing trouble, called a ferret-rescue volunteer, who discovered one dead ferret and one that seemed very, very scared. After receiving necropsy results, the district attorney decided not to file charges when authorities couldn't prove whom the ferrets belonged to--Tyson or the assistant. Whoever owned them could have faced up to six months in jail...
Then, in July, European authorities conducted a series of dawn raids on Coke facilities from the Continent to Britain in search of evidence that the company was offering retailers illegal kickbacks for favored shelf space. That investigation is ongoing. And last month French authorities rejected Ivester's $840 million bid for the Orangina soft-drink business. Observes John Quelch, dean of the London Business School: "The power of global brands may be strong, but they are not strong enough to preclude the need to cultivate [government] relationships at the national level...