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Perhaps, as the 20th century draws to a close, the quest for identity is best fulfilled not by finding a coherent sense of self but by discovering that everyone else is just as dysfunctional as you are--and that it's okay...

Author: By Leah A. Plunkett, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: We Wish You a Dysfunctional Christmas | 12/11/1998 | See Source »

...says she is determined not to buckle in her quest for fairness and respect...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Locals Battle Evictions in Holiday Rally | 12/9/1998 | See Source »

...wage increased later to a daily $10, it proved a critical component of Ford's quest to make the automobile accessible to all. The critics were too stupid to comprehend that because Ford had lowered his costs per car, the higher wages didn't matter--except for making it feasible for more people to buy cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Driving Force: Henry Ford | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...piece of fat-marbled beef represented a healthy diet. Though Burnett's corporate talismans endure, they occupy a world where consumers are increasingly caustic about the products that they purchase. The effort by marketers to capitalize on the cynical mind-set of an mtv generation has overwhelmed the quest for universal human archetypes. Jadedness and sarcasm are becoming the dominant argot of advertising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leo Burnett: Sultan Of Sell | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...ravenous quest for investment data would not be sated by print alone, a vacuum exploited brilliantly by Michael Bloomberg. Pushed out of Salomon Brothers in 1981, he invested his $10 million farewell gift in building a computerized data service that he turned into a global news service. Today 105,000 Bloomberg terminals light up the desks of banks and brokerages, and the company has expanded into magazines, TV and radio. Bloomberg's media churn out information about interest rates, currency-exchange rates and other streams of data that would have been considered exotic not long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Words To Profit By | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

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