Word: agog
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...retail industry has been agog in recent years over customer relationship management (CRM) software, which helps sellers mine data to learn what customers want, and which ones deserve the most attention. That's great, but why not also include technology that more directly helps shoppers? At Circuit City, based in Richmond, Va., receipts are stored electronically and can be accessed in any store coast to coast. This technology is widely available, but Circuit City has been shrewd enough to feature its version in TV ads, fostering its image as a place where it's easy to return merchandise and where...
...second season. This is because it airs on the cable channel E!, where the standards for a hit are lower. Despite the audience drop, on E! the show still qualifies as a ratings winner. So far, the unintelligible ramblings and aimless meanderings of Anna Nicole Smith have left people agog that she uses silverware without harming herself. But E!'s executive vice president Mark Sonnenberg isn't concerned. He believes people are "rooting for [Smith] to get back into shape and revitalize her love life. What's in store next for Anna Nicole remains to be seen." Though probably...
...found myself reading up on the Caroline after a trip to London last week. In Britain commentators and policy makers are agog about a new U.S. doctrine, unveiled by President George W. Bush in a commencement address early this month at West Point. Surveying the post-Sept. 11 world, Bush said that "if we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long...We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans and confront the worst threats before they emerge." The speech, wrote Peter Riddell, a sober columnist for the London Times, "signaled the most...
...found myself reading up on the Caroline after a trip to London last week. In Britain commentators and policy makers are agog about a new U.S. doctrine, unveiled by President George W. Bush in a commencement address early this month at West Point. Surveying the post-Sept. 11 world, Bush said that "if we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long ... We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans and confront the worst threats before they emerge." The speech, wrote Peter Riddell, a sober columnist for the London Times, "signaled the most...
...course, not every foreign service will be quickly adopted at home. Americans who attended the 1998 World Cup in France came back agog with tales of clean, reliable, high-speed trains that whisked them between cities. Will Amtrak soon offer such a system? Don't hold your breath. But the impact of foreign travel on American products shouldn't be underestimated. In the past few years, countless tourists to Europe and Japan have been impressed by local cell phones that don't lose connections when you turn a corner and that have all sorts of services that are denied Americans...