Word: eager
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Investors eager to ride this trend often turn to Amazon after starting out as satisfied online buyers of its books--and now of its music CDs, videos and gifts. The company has spent heavily to establish a brand name and reputation from scratch, with no brick-and-mortar stores to springboard its efforts. "Brand name is critically important to retailing, and Amazon paid dearly for it," notes Marie LaTour Kadison, senior analyst at Forrester. "They knew it was imperative [to establish a brand identity] before companies like Barnes & Noble and Borders came online...
...cosmetics, like wading through certain Don DeLillo novels or trying to make sense of the plotlines for Melrose Place, is not an easy undertaking. Step onto the mazelike cosmetics floor of almost any department store and you are likely to be assaulted by salesclerks--some spritz-happy, some too eager to confront you about your shiny forehead. Chances are the beauty product you're looking for is under glass, off limits to mere customers. According to at least one market-research survey on the way cosmetics are presented and pitched in stores, the entire process "inhibits friendliness...
...photo shows Bill as a rapt young teenager, watching his friend Paul Allen type at a computer terminal. Allen became a co-founder of Microsoft. The child Gates has neat hair and an eager, pleasant smile; every last detail says "pat me on the head." He entered Harvard but dropped out to found Microsoft in 1975. Microsoft's first product was a version of the programming language BASIC for the Altair 8800, arguably the world's first personal computer. BASIC, invented by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz in 1964, was someone else's idea. So was the Altair. Gates merely...
...features a male beauty pageant and a costume ball. During a 1997 Romantic Times Convention in Baton Rouge, La., as hundreds of lady authors, would-be authors and romance-novel lovers milled about, Lady Barrow (she bought herself an English title) regally strolled the floor, greeting fans eager not just to meet her but also to pat the pet chicken that often perched on her shoulder. Truly, she swoons all the way to the bank...
Luongo and Zaban have plenty of teammates eager to get the puck and shoot on goal. The most potent scorers have been junior forward Samantha Holmes and sophomore forward Michelle Thornton, who have combined for 16 goals...