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Word: enough (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when a single gift can make or break a Christmas, even 95% may not be good enough. In a survey conducted by PeopleSupport.com only 26% of online holiday shoppers had no complaints. About a third of them could name at least one Web store they will never use again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christmas Postponed | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...other is the truculence of Yeltsin, who tends to fire overly successful Prime Ministers. Putin's aides say this will not happen. But should Yeltsin decide to dump Putin, the Kremlin's electoral technicians may return to last week's results and put a new spin on them: with enough money and media, you can get absolutely anyone elected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's Election Surprise | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

Some sites, of course, were better prepared than others. By bringing on enough servers to handle peak-load traffic, the best avoided "site busy" messages and snail-like downloads. They also kept puzzled shoppers from fleeing by providing an 800 number or offering real-time Instant Messaging chats with customer reps. And they avoided apoplectic rages by "integrating" their inventory systems so that what appears to be in stock on the website corresponds with what's actually on the shelves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christmas Postponed | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...precipice of the new millennium, our legs dangling in the glorious future, the pledges that seemed sufficient in previous years--"I need to get on the StairMaster more" or "I'll be more patient with my kids"--just don't seem to pack enough vision and gravitas. But we must all fight this false sense of obligation to make grand, magnificently philosophical resolutions. As citizens, let's not allow our customarily banal and petty hopes for the ensuing year to be swept away by hyperbolic pomp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Resolutions Without The Guilt | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...turned out, Churchill's tenacity was powerful enough to defy Hitler, but not as powerful as the resistance techniques of the half-naked fakir. Gandhi and others who fought for civil rights turned out to be part of a historic tide, one that Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor appreciated better than Churchill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Mattered And Why | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

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