Word: closely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eagerly awaiting an offer they can't refuse. Unlike traditional auctions, though, bids aren't binding--there is more to picking a new boss than simply finding the right salary. So once the auction period ends--anywhere from one to five days--an accepted bid sets the stage to close the deal. "It gives you a starting point," says David Braverman, of Woodmere, New York, who runs a marketing agency and, after a week on the site, is putting final touches on a project with a Web retailing startup...
...half the U.S. search-and-recruitment market, worth some $30 billion, according to Perry Boyle, an analyst at Thomas Weisel Partners. Monster alone, which will eventually take a cut of $250 to $1,000 from firms that make a talent-market hire (the site is currently free), draws close to 3 million visitors a month, according to Media Metrix, helping the site become one of the few profitable Net outfits. It has made a name for itself with biting TV spots, which feature kids rattling off deadpan lines like "I want to be forced into early retirement...
Thank you, TIME, for such a balanced feature on someone who was an ordinary person living an extraordinary life. He was close to my age, and in his life I saw my own--at times good, at times bad, always uncertain. In his death, I saw my own frailty. I felt as though he belonged to all of us. I understand the loss that Americans, along with a great number of others, must feel. Today we are all a family mourning the loss of our little boy. ROB ELFORD London...
...next week's approach that frightens the activists. Should Cassini pass too close to Earth and burn up in the atmosphere, they warn, radioactive plutonium in the generators that provide the craft's electricity could cause millions of cancer deaths. Most scientists and doctors scoff at such claims. Any plutonium vaporized in an accident, they explain, would be so diluted in the atmosphere that it would pose no real threat to most people. Still, activists say, had Cassini been equipped with solar panels for electricity, all danger could have been averted...
Oddly, the sell-off could be a godsend in disguise. We need to see the dot.com door close, and close hard. We got our money from the market to grow and prosper, but we would prefer others not to have such good luck. The fewer dot.coms in our space, the merrier...