Word: excepting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...hasn't been the best of times for TIME's 1999 Person of the Year. Except for one widely applauded joint operating deal with Toys "R" Us, such frantic unwrappings have not gone down well in an increasingly skeptical marketplace. Strong doubts are setting in over whether cybershoppers will ever turn to Amazon for big-ticket items. "Beyond books, music and videos, it's unclear whether they have a sustainable business," says Alan Alper, an analyst at e-commerce watchdog Gomez Advisors. Which raises a horrifying prospect for all e-tailing: Is the poster child for the new economy...
...story of Jimmy Corrigan, both sad and mordantly hilarious (e.g. he is neither smart nor a kid, except emotionally), involves his visit to the father who abandoned him as a child. Among airport bars, convenience stores and modular housing Jimmy becomes involved in the lives of his father, his black adopted sister, Amy, and his grandfather, also named Jimmy. About two thirds of the way through we are given a lengthy flashback of grandpa Jimmy's childhood where we discover a forgotten secret. By the end we have read a small-scale history of America's last one hundred years...
...Thursday saw healthy rallies on all three indexes: 122 points for the Dow, 102 for NASDAQ, 15 for the S&P. Friday followed with more good stuff: the Dow ended up 24 and the NASDAQ was ahead by 28. Good days to help cap off a very good month (except for Ford), with the Dow picking up 7 percent in August and NASDAQ gaining 11 percent and finally breaking into positive territory for the year...
GORE CONSULTANTS Guys, put a cork in it (except to TIME). You keep making your client look like a mere pawn...
...myself according to her outline, but midway through my self-improvement drive, she dropped me cold. I was trying too hard, she said. My question to her was, Why would any man slave for riches, cultivate snobbish friends and lie down twice a week on a shrink's couch except to impress some woman? She couldn't answer this...