Word: consumerization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Priceline must now make its reverse-auction process work with items like gasoline, packaged groceries and credit cards. Such products are worth just as much tomorrow as they are today, giving suppliers little incentive to dump inventory by partnering with Priceline. "The Priceline dilemma, if they can't secure partnerships...
Here's one of the proposed tag lines: Surgeon General's Warning: Cigar Smoking Can Cause Lung Cancer and Heart Disease. When the agency actually implements the labels after a month of consumer review, you may encounter other, equally unsubtle admonitions, but the general message remains the same: Cigars are...
Sure, you've bought a few CDs on the Internet, but have you ever signed a lease online? Closed a mortgage? You will. Last week Congress passed a bill that will make electronic signatures as legally binding as the pen-and-paper kind. If it becomes a law, you'll...
1. Ousted Fijian President 2. Bug-eyed 3. Winning word in the 2000 National Spelling Bee 4. Get the lead out? 5. River in a 1957 film 6. Toothpaste type 7. Consumer-protection org. 8. Appeals court says no asylum hearing for him 9. Major leagues 10. A Hard Road...
So can travelers believe Zoghlin when he says, "Our sole goal is what is best for the consumer"? Consumer groups, travel agents, politicians and a wide assortment of airline experts are not so sure. Says Mark Silbergeld, of Consumer's Union: "In an industry made up of a series of...