Word: bonanzas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...keeping the status quo could have risky consequences. Leaving e-commerce untaxed amounts to a bonanza for Web entrepreneurs and Americans who own computers with Internet access. Within a few years, low-income customers could end up paying a disproportionate share of state and local taxes at stores like Waldeck's Office Supplies. That's if they still exist. Clifford Waldeck says he now makes 7% of his sales through his company's newest feature, its website...
Nuevo Laredo is a prescription Mecca for many in the Southwest. That's what brought Marvin Bryan here. A feisty 73-year-old long-distance trucker and former reading teacher from Mesa, Ariz., he had heard about Nuevo Laredo's prescription-drug bonanza from his trucker pals. Clutching a plastic bag, he is pleased with his purchases, which include Augmentin, Proscar and that modern elixir, Viagra. Nearby, Bill Gibson picks up Tagamet, the stomach medication, for a mere $7.50--far less than the $62 he says he would pay back in Oklahoma City, Okla., "even though it's made...
...lack for competition. Even as their Science paper appeared, other drugmakers indicated they were hot on the trail of the enzyme as well. And while Alzheimer's researchers offered the usual caveats, they seemed almost unanimously agreed that the identifying of the shadowy enzyme was not only a potential bonanza for drug companies but also the first really encouraging sign that there may yet be a light at the end of that long, dark tunnel called Alzheimer...
February's Ivy Championships were also marked by two impressive event wins for Harvard. Junior Corie Calfee led a Crimson point scoring bonanza in the 100-breast-stroke, beating out two of her teammates in the finals to take...
...people still go to theaters, or even rent videos from stores? What will happen to the big studios and distributors, especially given the success of The Blair Witch Proj-ect, which formed its core audience on the Net before catapulting its way--through theatrical release--to a box-office bonanza? Will the Net open new markets for independents...