Word: ail
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...newsstands remain the point of purchase for most commemorative issues. Plus, although Powazek and the photographers aren't making any money off Strange Light, it costs eight bucks. (TIME's Jackson issue was $6.) Publishing on demand and MagCloud are clearly not going to solve all the woes that ail media. But Powazek looks like he's having a lot of fun trying...
...rich (heart disease, diabetes, lung cancer) and those of the poor (HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria) has blurred. As citizens of developing nations get fatter and take up tobacco-smoking - habits of the developed world - they are also under increasing threat from the same chronic noncommunicable diseases (CNCD) that ail the wealthy...
...impressive 10-year run, but when eBay's slowdown began, she tried to buy her way out of the problem, acquiring companies like PayPal, Skype, Shopping.com and StubHub to generate growth. Many were profitable but distracting, as problems like lack of trust and shoddy search technology continued to ail the auction site, the main revenue driver. "Meg was reluctant to expand things like customer service because it would eat into eBay's margins," says Jeffrey Lindsay, senior analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein...
...having to go to work.' But I honestly think the majority of players in my position would have tried, and not one of them for the money. In the back of my mind, I know there are still no guarantees." On the other hand, he is overdue at the Ail-Star game. --By Tom Callahan