Word: mortars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ending in June, everybody from your broker to the corner grocer to the guy who sold you that recliner you're sitting on is paying attention to the online biz, no matter what the aggravation. And whether they're working for an aggressive Net start-up, a brick-and-mortar retailer who fears getting "Amazon-ed" or a company content for now to dip a toe into the scary world of e-commerce, they're all interested in the future of your wallet. Says Dan Burke, senior analyst at Gomez Advisors, a rater of e-commerce sites: "We're just...
...handed over all weapons required by previous agreements, observers believe the transition is unlikely to stop violence in the province. Many of the weapons handed over were old and not particularly useful, and it has been anticipated that KLA hard-liners ? some of whom have been involved in systematic mortar attacks on Serb villages ? may choose to simply hide their arms and continue their independence war from the underground...
...those. The 35 biggest traditional retailers have a market value of $630 billion, he says, while the 32 biggest online retailers have a market value of just $53 billion. Graham says that in time those numbers must converge because the online companies are taking business from their bricks-and-mortar competition...
...ceremony, students will wear brightorange stickers on their mortar boards tocontradict this image...
...dead horses eviscerated by scavengers, over a trampled barbed wire fence and you are in Kosovo. A thin trail leads down through light green scrub oak to a rutted dirt road, which in turn winds deeper into the cleft of a narrow valley. The mighty crash of 110-mm mortar rounds resounds from the hillsides, interspersed with the delicate crack of Kalashnikov rifles. Wisps of munitions smoke mix with the low mountain clouds spreading over the Dukadjin plains in the distance. About a mile and a half in stands a small, bullet-flecked barrack nestled in a hollow, surrounded...