Word: dwarf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Investors clearly think the game is over, rewarding pure-play e-tailers with market capitalizations that dwarf their off-line competitors--Amazon's $32 billion, vs. Sears' and K Mart's combined $17 billion; eToys' $4.5 billion, vs. Toys "R" Us' $3.6 billion; and, even more amazing, airline-ticket broker Priceline.com's $8.3 billion, vs. the combined $8.6 billion market cap of Continental Airlines, US Airways and United Airlines...
...University of Chicago, has produced four major projects to date. "Columbian Inventions" (a collection of songs in honor/protest of Columbus Day), "Buster Crabbe" (celebrating the life of the actor who played Tarzan, Superman, and other macho characters in early movies), "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: The Twelve-Tone Rock Opera," "Liquid Dwarf, Rusty Dwarf" (an album boasting songs such as "Barbecue of Love" and "Petrified Vomit"), and "Petrified Barbecue" (greatest hits) all belong to the band's repertoire...
Ewing scored ten points and grabbed 13 rebounds in a double-double effort in the Princeton upset, and led all regular contributors with an impressive 59.5 field-goal percentage on the season. He also dominated in shot blocking. His 47 rejections dwarf junior Damian Long's eight, the team's second highest total. The total is also good for second on the school's all-time list...
...book?s protagonist, Oskar, refuses to grow in protest at the hypocrisies he sees all around him as Germany is seduced by the allure of Nazism, and then ?- as a dwarf ?- gains privileged access to the elite of the Third Reich. Its bold exploration of issues postwar Germany was doing its best to forget made its author a legendary social critic and literary provocateur. He became strongly identified with Germany?s political left, and in 1990 was criticized for rejecting the speedy reunification of East and West Germany. "In his later writing, he took partisan political positions," says Gray...
...that B2B e-commerce will hit a total of $1.3 trillion by 2003, accounting for 9.4% of total U.S. business sales. Varda Lief (see the box, following), a senior analyst at Forrester specializing in e-commerce, says business-to-business transactions will far surpass business-to- consumer deals and dwarf giants like eBay and Amazon.com in revenue and sales. "Business-to-business is the stuff that makes everything run," says Lief...