Word: grewing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...ruling rationale goes something like this: We always had to get big fast. Now we have to get even bigger even faster. The Internet landgrab isn't over just yet. Our infrastructure is scalable, so costs will drop as sales grow. The average customer is ordering more. Sales grew 84% in the second quarter. We pay $13 in marketing to acquire a customer--less than a fifth of what it costs credit-card companies. Most of our businesses are less than a year old. Expect profitability in a few years, unless some other great investment opportunity comes along...
...culture is for the most part deeply democratic, and joyously so as well. It is no longer "provincial," a distant and nervous response to norms generated in imperial centers. It is the result of a bloodless and slow-developing social revolution conducted over 40 years as a small society grew larger and immeasurably more complex, shook off its sense of derivative Englishness and its fear of American domination and learned to trust its own talents...
...Basically just week to week. I started it as a weekly strip in '93 [for 'NewCity,' a Chicago-area weekly] and really only expected it to last a few months. And, I don't know, it just kind of grew out of terrible writing and poor planning on my part. I don't know how to excuse it other than that...
...Yeah, I suppose. He was really just a stand-in for me early on when I was living here in Chicago and feeling terribly sorry for myself. I guess he's sort of an adult who never quite grew up. He's paralyzed by his own inability to decide or act, and a fear of being disliked...
...first generation raised on television, which is also the first generation exposed routinely to pornography. They share the weird and unreliable assumption - almost universal now - that for something to be genuine, it must be shown. And if it is shown, it is credible. It is real. I grew up learning to make the opposite assumption: My deepest instinct tells me that if something is paraded in public, then it must be false - a mere performance...