Word: chained
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Bradley: A box of lozenges; a Tiffany key chain with an athletic shoe...
...digit sales growth since Graves' products hit the store last year. "Customers really respond to products that involve new thinking and connect with their souls," says Target v.p. Ron Johnson, who launched the Graves line before switching over to Apple's business-development team. Not surprisingly, the department-store chain, based in Minneapolis, Minn., has become the talk of Madison Avenue, not to mention Main Street. And this year, as Target nears the opening of its 1,000th store, Graves has been joined by the doyen of design, Philippe Starck, another Alessi regular, and Target's hometown hipsters, the young...
...ridicule runs high in Wise's business. The public hates lawyers, and the idea of court-clogging animal-rights litigation makes eyes roll. Wise's job is to divest mankind of some of its metaphysical self-importance--the absolute dominion over nature granted by Genesis, Aristotle and the Great Chain of Being, a hierarchy in which man may use all subordinate creation as he pleases, for everything from food to biomedical research...
...messages on the keyboard and beam them to any other Cybiko users who happen to be around. While the device's range is 300 ft., each has a kind of repeater built in, so that a message can be relayed over great distances--if you could somehow assemble a chain of users every few hundred feet. Such an ad hoc local wireless network could theoretically hold up to 99 daughters. A bigger limitation, however, may be its price: $149 per unit is pretty steep...
...once seemed impossible, but another giant has been toppled. In Syracuse, N.Y., the last survivor of the Bonwit Teller department store chain, whose flagship store once graced Fifth Avenue, officially went out of business Monday. It was more of a whimper than a thud. The chain's legendary Manhattan store, which had vaulted ceilings and was the first U.S. retailer to sell European clothing, closed its doors more than a decade a go - its site is now occupied by the gaudy Trump Tower and a Nike emporium - and the final store of the chain hadn't turned a profit...