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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seeing that Schwab may be the precursor rather than the exception. Robert Kenzer, CEO of Kenzer Corp., a retail executive-search firm, says retailers will have to do online, off-line and catalog in order to survive "or have strategic alliances that permit them to do all three." Companies such as Circuit City and eToys' competitors KB Toys and Toys "R" Us are proving they're not out of the game. "Clicks-and-mortar has a lot of inherent advantages," says Seema Williams, e-commerce analyst at Forrester Research. "For one thing, an existing, powerful brand presence. It's going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clicks And Bricks | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...college students and parents with small children, who have the impetus to navigate the bidding process for the average $12.75 it will save them on a basket of 10 items. "For some families," he says, "that's the difference between putting meat on the table once a week and three times a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food Fight! Food Fight! | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...than to get out, since Webmasters tend to fill all the space available, which online is infinite. Did you know that Kona beans thrive in the dark volcanic soil, sunny mornings and cloudy afternoons of Hawaii? I didn't either, but now I've brought it up at three parties. I've turned into the kind of person I used to avoid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dinner @ Margaret's | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...story of the 1990s, then Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan gets my vote as Person of the Decade. The American economy will mark its longest period of uninterrupted expansion this February. During the past nine years, the U.S. unemployment rate has fallen to 4.1%, the lowest level in three decades, while inflation has remained under 3% and interest rates have remained relatively low. The stock market remains at record levels, and productivity grew twice as fast in the 1990s as it did in the 1980s. No one person, of course, can claim credit for this performance, but over the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People Who Mattered | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...that home schoolers could dislodge public school students from their teams. "If you don't want your son or daughter displaced," he told one sympathetic sports editor, "you have to stand up now." When the Engler-backed bill came up in the state senate in June, it got just three votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outside, Wanting In | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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