Word: freshness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Golden Knights must have been in shock. Fresh off a 2-1 victory over No. 5 Boston College, they surely had to expect an easy victory against the worst team in the division...
Walking morning rounds recently, Searles noticed bear tracks in fresh snow near the golf course. He has become an ursine eco-evangelist. "This is the year 2000," he says, "and authorities still kill bears that did nothing wrong. My ambition is to change this." The gangly contractor adds, "Bears have shown they can adapt to us. Why can't we adapt to them?" Within the range of a middling seven-iron shot, at least four bears are adapting...
...station. Amazon's stock, which rose more than 37 points in a single day last week, is flirting with doubling its value in the month of November alone. Analysts attribute that rise mainly to the seemingly boundless potential of e-commerce, or retailing on the Internet--a subject fresh on the minds of shoppers and investors this holiday season. Internet consumers will buy $3.5 billion worth of goods in the last three months of this year, and $7.8 billion for the year, according to Forrester Research of Cambridge, Mass. That's a thin slice of the overall retailing...
...children's book would be merely a paragraph of declarative sentences without the art: the most important part of the stew. Although there are as many illustration styles as there are ways to mess up a room, Wade Zahares' work looks fresh and sprightly, perhaps because this is his first book for kids. There's nothing to the story: a girl and her mom go to the city on a train and pass a whole lot of scenery (or window music). But the densely colorful, chalky pictures make the story a journey worth remembering. No wonder kids love trains...
...only time I ever met Henry Ford, he looked at me and probably wondered, "Who is this little s.o.b. fresh out of college?" He wasn't real big on college graduates, and I was one of 50 in the Ford training course in September 1946, working in a huge drafting room at the enormous River Rouge plant near Detroit...