Word: advent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...With the advent of Internet auction sites, it may seem that traditional auction houses will soon be going the way of the dinosaur. But Skinner's Motion Pictures Posters & Ephemera auction on Nov. 20 proved that the traditional auction venue is still popular, and in fact thriving in these modern times...
Certainly Harvard believes that it isn't asking Jewish students to sacrifice that much. After all, electric menorahs are available and recommended, and Christian students also have to forego lighted Advent wreaths. Admittedly, that's annoying for them, but how many were actually planning to have Advent wreaths anyway? In contrast, the menorah is a necessary possession of practicing Jews. When Hannukah originated over 2,100 years ago, the Israelites miraculously annihilated the armies of Antiochus and then miraculously had enough pure oil to keep the menorah in the otherwise destroyed Temple burning for eight days. Jews have been kindling...
Beauty has gone back to basics. In the U.S.'s $16 billion cosmetics industry, you don't need supermodels like Cindy Crawford. You don't need to ply customers with giveaways. And with the advent of the Web and stores like Sephora, you don't need counter space at Saks or Macy's. The business of beauty, that most undemocratic phenomenon, has been made over by boutique companies offering such offbeat products as transdermal vitamin C patches (Osmotics), Saint-John's-wort lipstick (Tony & Tina) and shimmery body powder (BeneFit...
...than 23 million people like Parker in the U.S. who do not work a 9-to-5, Monday-to-Friday week. In fact, about 20% of the American work force works on schedules that cross the normal 9-to-5 lines. And that percentage can only increase with the advent of nonstop stock markets and ceaseless financial trading, round-the-clock shopping and the growing importance of the unsleeping Internet. The old notion of blue-collar night-shifters no longer applies: managers and professionals, who just 10 years ago made up only a tiny percentage of the shift work force...
...ever o.k. to fax a thank-you note? Is it kosher to read someone else's fax as it comes off the machine? Is it rude to use a speakerphone? With all the new gadgetry and the nearly universal advent of dress-down Fridays, office life at the end of the century was supposed to get simpler, wasn't it? But in the era of digital wizardry and globalization, rules of business behavior have become more important to us than ever. A spate of new books tackle the problem of gentility in the workplace from a number of angles...