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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Indeed, the intersection of Seventh Avenue and Wall Street has been the scene of some ugly collisions. Fashion companies--and Lauren has been an exception--tend to have lousy managers. The list of fashion victims includes Donna Karan, Liz Claiborne, Guess?, Mossimo and Nautica. The only hot fashion stock is, ironically, Ralph-licate designer Tommy Hilfiger, which is projecting earnings growth of 58% this year, taking the stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ralph Lauren's Rough Ride | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

...flying from Miami to London and trying to get a $26,000 refund for seven tickets. A scan revealed that four were stolen, part of a batch of 24,000 taken from Hudson Holidays in Elmwood Park, Ill., in December 1996. "It adds money laundering to the list of crimes the stolen tickets are being used for," says Little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Ticket: The Airlines' First-Class Problem | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

...situation. Suddenly everyone in the car pipes up, "That's annoying too! But turn the damn TV off." And I realized that there are a lot of angry folks out there who ought to connect and vent about bad manners. What my trainmates needed was an e-mail list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fun with E-Mail | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

...probably know that Internet mailing lists tend to be free discussion groups, focused on particular issues. There are more than 200,000 of them on the Net with some 15 million subscribers discussing everything from global warming to nose hair. Setting up a public mailing list used to be a hassle unless you had access to industrial-strength mailing programs used at universities that allow folks to do things such as automatically subscribe to and unsubscribe from lists. Since e-mail has grown so popular, though, a number of companies are helping people set up and manage mailing lists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fun with E-Mail | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

Topica hopes to make money mainly through targeted ads. Anyone searching for a list about basenjis, say, might see a dog-food ad. At some point, list "owners" may be given the option of allowing short, targeted text ads to be appended to messages sent to subscribers--in exchange for a percentage of the ad revenue. That sounds tasty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fun with E-Mail | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

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