Word: weekends
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bezos needed to learn the book business fast. Fate was his handmaiden: the American Booksellers Association's annual convention was set for the very next day in Los Angeles. He flew out and spent the weekend roaming the aisles and taking a crash course in the business. Everything he learned encouraged him. The two big wholesalers for books were Ingram and Baker & Taylor. "So I went to their booths and told them I was thinking of doing this." Books, it turns out, are among the most highly databased items on the planet. The wholesalers even had CD-ROMs listing them...
...criticism of Moscow's tactics in Chechnya may be missing the point: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was the undisputed winner of last weekend's Russian parliamentary election precisely because of his get-tough act in Chechnya - and because he stuck his jaw out in the face of Western criticism. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott on Thursday chided Moscow for failing to observe international human rights standards, and there was certainly no lack of evidence to back his claim: Russian forces continued their relentless pounding of Grozny despite the presence of thousands of civilians in the city, and the Russian...
While most of the U.S. enjoyed a peaceful holiday weekend, the nation's law enforcement community quietly worked to preempt a New Year's catastrophe. In the Northwest the FBI tracked the lead of a Washington State airline employee who recalled selling a plane ticket for Las Vegas last week to Adbelmajed Dahoumane, the suspected accomplice of Ahmed Ressam, the Algerian man caught smuggling explosives across the U.S.-Canadian border. Dahoumane's destination raised a red flag - Las Vegas will host one of the nation's largest New Year's celebrations on its fabled strip. The feds continue to scour...
...Harvard women's basketball team was out-rebounded and simply out-played this weekend in a 61-42 loss against Northeastern this weekend...
...National Security Adviser Sandy Berger and a State Department travel advistory warning Americans abroad to stay away from crowds. Official concern has been heightened by last week's arrest of 13 suspected terrorists in Jordan and the capture of Algerian Ahmed Ressam at a U.S. border post at the weekend with bomb-making equipment in the trunk of his car. Ressam was indicted Wednesday on charges of attempting to smuggle explosives into the U.S., and pleaded not guilty...