Word: amazoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...service, brainchild of ex-Wall Streeter Jeff Bezos, 33, is widely considered the hottest retail site in cyberspace. Few book lovers would forgo entirely the joys of browsing an actual bookstore, but Amazon offers considerable pleasures of its own. The site is so fast and responsive it almost feels alive; it's thrilling to have every title in the language at your fingertips, and reader-produced reviews add a layer of egalitarian interactivity. In the past year everyone from Business Week to the New Yorker has sung Amazon's praises. Bill Gates buys books there, and he doesn't even...
...fact, the only relevant constituency that Amazon hasn't yet conquered is Bezos' ex-colleagues in lower Manhattan. So two weeks ago he made his big initial-public-offering play, announcing his intent to sell 2.5 million shares of stock for $29 million...
...admirers who packed into Dudley House Common room last night soaked in a multimedia tour of the Galapagos Islands, the Amazon River and the Olympic Games...
...paintings depict scenes such as the Amazon River and Galapagos Islands and concepts such as social injustice in abstract form...
...seizure, communications were established and the insurgents gradually began releasing some 300 women and elderly people (including Fujimori's mother and sister). In phone calls to local television and radio stations, the rebels then issued a list of demands. Among them: safe passage to a haven in the Amazon jungle and release of about 450 comrades being held in various jails, where conditions are so harsh that prisoners are said to be trapping rats to feed themselves...