Word: drag
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...newly incorporated Ian Schrager Hotels. For instance, nearly everything in your room, from sheets and towels to toilet brushes, is for sale. Schrager's even giving thought to opening stores to sell these wares. And he leases in-house restaurants and bars, which can typically be a major drag on hotel earnings...
...skeptical manufacturers. None of that is news to Andrew Brooks, CEO of Furniture.com Nevertheless, he thinks he can convert customers by making online sofa shopping much better than the showroom variety. Brooks is hoping to win consumers with features such as a program that allows them to click and drag pictures of furniture into a room on the website, to see how it might look at home. "This industry has been driven by the manufacturer's needs," says Brooks. "Online, we can be much more consumer-centric...
...lecture, she reached the conclusion that, due to Congress' slow speed and enormous drag, it would have almost no lift and make no progress. However, she added, Americans should take heart at the fact that Congress is almost powerless--scientifically speaking--as well...
...France: Nothing. Adolf Hitler, he insists, was somewhat misunderstood. The Nazis only wanted to move east into Russia and Eastern Europe--which posed no threat to U.S. interests--until we got them all riled up. The Holocaust? A bad thing, certainly, but not the kind of problem that should drag a nation into...
Harvard's venerable annual drag show will be a gem this year...