Word: understanding
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...understand how drastically the landscape of the online shopping world has shifted since holiday season 1999, you could do worse than pay a visit to Bluelight.com based in San Francisco. Incongruities abound. Here we are at a converted warehouse (major points for geek chic), but it's in the heart of Fisherman's Wharf, Middle America's greatest open-air tourist trap, miles from the hipster hangouts. Inside are all the signs of an unstuffy start-up--pets roaming the halls, people with green hair. Yet what gets them really jazzed is flipping the switch that signals a virtual blue...
...have never been able to rise to the level of the Bill Clinton bunko squad, where we can get money directly from a Riady family or someplace in China. However, I understand the executives of Fox are meeting with Time Inc. and are going to get some tips over there...
...virtually meaningless. Partly because of the separation of powers, the new President almost never signs into law the programs he promised. When you look at it that way, the only really important thing about George W. Bush's Social Security plan was that he didn't seem to understand...
...whatever is upsetting a person--"My husband doesn't understand me," for example--Katie poses four questions: Is your problem true? Can you really know it's true? Can you find a peaceful reason to believe it? Who would you be without it? Then, through a technique she calls the turnaround, Katie coaxes the person to look inside rather than outside for the solution. "He should understand me," for example, may become, "I should understand him and myself." A woman at this evening's session gripes that her sister is holier than thou but discovers that she is doing...
...conceit bravely, well past the facts' tolerance. Clinton's politics go almost unmentioned, for example, the better to focus on the president as if he were nothing more than an incarnation of a cultural icon. The Elvis perspective is, however, a stunningly illuminating way to see Clinton and understand why we have hated and loved...