Word: discoverable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"I think Karin was pleasantly surprised to discover her teammates didn't adhere to this policy," Haggerty says. "She underestimated her own chances."
TOM CLANCY OR JOHN LE CARRE might hesitate at making credible fiction of this tale. Imagine that the Vietnamese government signs a contract with an American researcher to write a book on the Vietnam War, using secret archives that Hanoi has insisted for 20 years do not exist. Then suppose...
Within hours, in a cold rain, 800 firemen and policemen were searching the blackened ruins in shifts. "It's hard to keep our eyes dry," said fire fighter Gerard Jurgens. "We find children's toys almost intact, and then suddenly we discover a part of what was a human being...
This setup is all well and fine, except Coupland doesn't go anywhere with it. The characters never really do anything. They spend a quarter of the book hanging out or going up to British Columbia to discover that a forest has disappeared, or gawking at the resident AIDS patient...
In the end, the humiliating irony for the company that invented such American-style trademarks as national merchandising, catalog shopping and even store-wide sales was that it was better at selling stocks, bonds, credit cards and insurance policies than it was at satisfying its core retail customers. Such financial...