Word: closers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...site. The eBay miracle isn't that it allows you to clean out your attic at a profit--though that's not a bad invention--but that it changes the whole way that we set prices. On eBay, buyers get to decide what something is worth, so objects migrate closer to their true value. Recently a Maine antiques store put an old-fashioned calculator up for sale on eBay for $100. Within a few days the calculator-loving collectors of the Web had bid the price up to $6,500. The antiques sellers had had no idea that they were...
...Each cup of grease, motor oil or fertilizer we can keep out of the river brings us closer to our goal," said the EPA's New England administrator John P. DeVillars in the release...
Harvard would get no closer, however, as Northeastern pulled away at the close of the game by making key free fouls and capitalizing on two poor Harvard passes from freshman point guard Elliott Prasse-Freeman and sophomore guard Andrew Gellert...
...WAITING by Ha Jin. A doctor in the Chinese army wants to divorce his wife, who lives back in his native village, and marry a nurse. Years and years pass, and the doctor gets no closer to his heart's desire. The author's gently comic rendering of this ordeal won him, deservedly, a 1999 National Book Award...
...CLOSER Patrick Marber's bruising drama about relationships is weakest when it tries most to shock (a cybersex scene). But as a portrait of the way modern urbanites strive and fail to connect, it makes an impact. The Broadway cast of this British import, headed by Natasha Richardson, could hardly have been bettered...