Word: offing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Amazon.com and other retailers born on the Web did much better, hitting their delivery dates nearly 9 times out of 10. The best performers--seemingly against all odds--were the delivery guys. UPS hired 90,000 extra employees for the dotcom season and managed to keep more than 95% of...
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There's a danger that conservation groups will put out too many messages or that the anarchists who rioted in Seattle will discredit the whole movement. But for now, the greens are betting they can get more of us to think about what we buy and how our pocketbooks can...
For want of a light saber, a toy drum, a doll, a jigsaw puzzle and a Slinky, Elizabeth Bernard almost stopped believing in the e-commerce Santa Claus. The Louisiana mother of three and veteran online shopper chose her presents at Sears' wishbook.com way back on Dec. 6--well within...
If it's any comfort, Bernard is not alone, and neither is Sears. The final days of the Internet's first really big Christmas were punctuated by a mountain of undelivered packages and a blizzard of complaints: computers that crashed, orders that vanished, items suddenly out of stock or stuck...