Word: malling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...many of these shoppers, their exhausting treks to the mall lead to one persistent thought: There must be a better way. Well, holiday shoppers, that way is here...
...Ingram Book Group, the largest U.S. wholesaler to book retailers, including Amazon. This follows Barnes & Noble's sale of 50% of its website operations to giant publisher Bertelsmann AG, creating a potent synergy. Meanwhile, nine other major Web retailers, including CDnow and eToys, recently banded together in an online mall called ShopperConnection to better compete with Amazon. Well-funded upstarts like Buy.com keep coming. And the first "electronic books"--or flat displays that let you read a book on a screen--are just hitting the market...
Savoring the last drag of his cigarette, Josh Randall, a stocky 17-year-old Miami high school senior, nonchalantly flicked the butt to the curb. As he headed back inside the mall, four undercover police officers wearing Miami Dolphins T shirts bailed out of a black sedan with tinted windows. They wrote the teen a citation to appear in court, then ordered him to hold still while they snapped his mug shot. The charge? Being a minor in possession of one Marlboro cigarette...
...calculation behind Starr's interview was painfully transparent even in his dress: casual-Friday blazer and open-necked plaid sport shirt, chosen as if to say, "You know me. I'm just the kind of apple-cheeked suburban dad you might see shopping for ugly sweaters down at the mall and not some scary-vindictive superprude out of The Crucible." Indeed, the fact that Starr wasn't seen wearing buckled shoes and a peaked black hat was probably a public relations victory in and of itself. In a separate interview, a group of Starr's hard-nosed assistants also appeared...
...number was 15.8 million--not a dramatic change, but a trend. The average American hunter is white, male and 42 years old. Young people who once would have gone hunting naturally and casually in nearby fields and forests (as Glenn Shepard does) instead play soccer and go to the mall...