Word: bandwagon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problems were centered high in the retail pipeline. The worst offenders, according to the Andersen study, were giant chains trying to jump on the online bandwagon (but perhaps leaving their hearts in the mall). Even when the big bricks-and-mortar stores managed to get the online orders right, there was a 75% chance that the goods wouldn't arrive on time. Toys "R" Us, realizing three days before Christmas that it could not make good on its delivery promises, issued free $100 gift certificates to customers left in the lurch...
...music, rather than "keeping it real," seems more interested in catering to suburban stereotypes of urban life: Look kids, isn't DMX scary?!? Certainly there are great hip-hoppers out there--Lauryn Hill and Nas to name two--but as record labels jump on the rap bandwagon, the disposable acts are piling up. As two female performers, Bahamadia and Rah Digga, observe on a recent duet, "Mediocre rappers gettin' all this play/While the underground rappers stay around...
Last Wednesday's move was therefore an answer to mounting public pressure: after California banned smoking in all public areas in 1997, including bars and taverns, and with similar legislation in Massachusetts pending, it is becoming increasingly difficult not to jump on the bandwagon of public denunciation--even if such denunciation means appearing hypocritical. If confronted, any executive from a tobacco company could simply claim to have the facts in his favor: "we have admitted that smoking causes cancer, what else do you expect us to do?" And surprisingly, few would realistically respond, "stop producing cigarettes." Is that because...
...these corporate lawyers reach their 60s and 70s, they look back as their grandchild sitting on their knee asks them what they did for a living... That's when they realize they missed the justice bandwagon," he said...
...Slim STEELERS +3 over Jaguars Slim is back on the Steelers bandwagon, emboldened by the Three Rivers site and the chance for Bill Cowher and the boys to stick it to their old/new rivals, which, face it, they generally do. Watch out Titans...