Word: makings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those perfect autumn nights that make Manhattan seem magical. There is not a cloud in the sky, and looking up from the streets, you can see stars. On the avenues, white lights speckle the trees. There is a chill in the air--just enough to ice the occasional breath--and the urgent roar of the city is a reminder that New York at this moment may be the Rome of the modern world. The NASDAQ is at a record high. Again. New companies are being born. It is a perfect night for a launch party...
Bezos is struggling mightily to make sure it doesn't kill Amazon too. Even as he cuts off competition like eBay by getting into the auction business himself (partnering with no less than Sotheby's), he is also trying to make Amazon a model of i-age shopping. When we buy one book, Amazon's computers can tell us what other people who bought that book purchased (and what they thought of those purchases). Or the site's users can look up the most popular books at their company or in their hometown. A few clicks from Amazon's home...
Actually, it was one of Shaw's partners who interviewed Bezos first and urged the boss to meet him, saying, "He's going to make someone a lot of money someday." Shaw agreed, understanding that Bezos was unusual not only for his balanced intellect--he could handle complex logic as well as articulate his thinking--but also for the overall package: smart, creative, personable, precisely the kind of person they wanted. Over time, Bezos became a specialist in researching business opportunities in insurance, software and then the booming Internet...
...already started moving homeless people from shelters around the capital out to seven military camps, where they're being put up in barracks and told to make new lives," says TIME Latin America bureau chief Tim McGirk. "But despite the incentives he'll offer in terms of jobs and housing, many people won't want to be moved away from the city." Though government reconstruction efforts will be helped by the fact that prices are rising for the country's premier cash cow, its oil industry (which is largely unaffected by the flooding), persuading citizens to move away from urban...
...with a surprise jab in the form of a twice-weekly-debate challenge, Vice President Gore sought to finish off the ex-senator Wednesday with one of Dollar Bill's own weapons - Great Society revivalism. Borrowing language from LBJ, the veep unveiled a 10-year, $50 billion plan to make preschool universally accessible to four-year-olds and most three-year-olds. The proposal hit Bradley, the de facto liberal of the Democratic race, where it hurts by surpassing his $2.5 billion-per-year child-poverty program. "This answers Bradley's big criticism of Gore, that he's not bold...