Word: entering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trunk revealed a chilling cache: 10 plastic bags loaded with 118 lbs. of urea, two 22-oz. jars three-fourths full of a volatile liquid similar to nitroglycerine and four small boxes containing circuit boards connecting Casio watches to 9-volt detonating devices. The man trying to enter the U.S. 17 days before the millennium was carrying enough explosive material to take out the Seattle Space Needle. He was also carrying a plane ticket to London, via New York. Target, or escape route...
...before a football game. I was watching and noticed that Marylin Star's driver's license read Kathryn Akahoshi, prompting me to ask why this blond had a Japanese name. She had become a stripper in Calgary while still a teenager, hitting Los Angeles in the mid-'90s to enter the adult-video business and then diving into a marriage with a Japanese businessman. The couple subsequently divorced. She was articulate and confident, and I got the feeling that for her, real life was what you did while looking for the next big score. Then she said something that struck...
...index are going to be the winners in the next ten or twenty years because they're on the cutting edge of innovation and growth in the American economy." And that's going to make NASDAQ the place to be in the unnamable decade we?re about to enter...
...doubters, and the fact of the matter is, we don't try to convince them," he says, pointing out that he will start making a profit when the "cone of opportunity" begins to narrow--that is, when there's no room left for more competitors to enter. The questions go on for 15 minutes. What does your house look like? (It's lovely, and we are amazingly fortunate to live there, he replies, pointing out that until four months ago, he and MacKenzie, his wife of six years, lived in a 900-sq.-ft. apartment.) Just how many items...
...started with a patent. In 1997 Amazon introduced a feature on its web site called 1-Click shopping. The idea was that the site would remember your address and billing information from prior purchases so that you wouldn't have to re-enter them every time you bought something. It was a pretty good idea, good enough that Amazon applied for, and received, a patent on it. MORE...