Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...businessperson. "We're trying to build something lasting," Bezos says, looking at this 850,000-sq.-ft. monument to free trade. The warehouse is stocked with books, CDs, TVs, stereos, video games, software, toys. And yet only 10% of the area is being used. The rest is stretch space, here for the ongoing e-commerce revolution...
...says Dowell. "In Vietnam, the Viet Cong would often do all the preparations for an attack, knowing U.S. intelligence would pick it up and protect against it, but then not actually attack. If you have a big organization, you want to send out a lot of false signals to stretch your enemy's resources and keep him guessing about when you're really planning to strike...
After starting 3-0, the Crimson has lost five of its last six and is looking for someone--or a few people--to replace Clemente's 21 points per game and help the Crimson offense down the stretch...
With only 3:52 left, the Crimson found itself down by nine, after Brittian drained a jumper. The youthful Harvard squad's defense deserted it down the stretch. Harvard was outscored by the Huskie's in the second half...
...besieged, postpatriarchal, Prozac-popping capo not truly the master of his family or his Family. But the show didn't stop there. Structured less like an episodic series than a seamless suite, it redefined TV storytelling. Watch it weekly, and it's an addictive saga; watch several at a stretch, and its rich vocabulary of metaphors and motifs submerges and resurfaces with novelistic grace...