Word: controllers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Spencer, Eliza Sommers makes her way in the world by cross-dressing. She befriends a Chinese healer who becomes her confidant, her partner in an alternative-medicine practice and eventually her soul mate for life. Throughout it all, Allende projects a woman's point of view with confidence, control and an expansive definition of romance as a fact of life. In this book and Sobel's, history is not only revised but also enthusiastically refurnished...
...industry when it inadvertently elevates Eric Johnson, "professor of management at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business," to the level of toy expert [BUSINESS, Oct. 25]. As an independent toy designer, I believe emotion is the true heart of all toys. To become healthy again, the industry must return control to the real experts, the entrepreneurs, inventors and designers who are intrinsically connected to this emotional dimension. As long as the M.B.A.s hold the toy-industry reins and the stock market is God, Toys "R" Us will remain a boring place to shop, and our children will continue...
BILL GATES Think different, dude. System's crashing and DOJ is coming for you. Try control-alt-delete...
...drive you, which they, like, never do," she says. Carolyn's dad Peter might beg to differ about that, but he does agree that letting Carolyn make purchases at RocketCash, an e-commerce site designed for teens, makes things easier on the family. "Carolyn gets to feel in control, but I feel good 'cause her shopping is limited to certain stores and certain amounts," Cross says...
These aren't big-ticket items, and the shoppers are incredibly cost-conscious. (Wouldn't you be if your disposable income came from babysitting twice a week?) But Internet entrepreneurs and marketers are attracted to the potential of the teen consumer: teens control or influence $457.9 billion in consumer spending a year, and 81% of those ages 13 to 18 say they have used the Internet, making teens the most wired generation ever...