Word: restful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Every time a seismic shift takes place in our economy, there are people who feel the vibrations long before the rest of us do, vibrations so strong they demand action--action that can seem rash, even stupid. Ferry owner Cornelius Vanderbilt jumped ship when he saw the railroads coming. Thomas Watson Jr., overwhelmed by his sense that computers would be everywhere even when they were nowhere, bet his father's office-machine company...
...ever made by a businessperson. "We're trying to build something lasting," Bezos says, looking at this 850,000-sq.-ft. monument to free trade. The warehouse is stocked with books, CDs, TVs, stereos, video games, software, toys. And yet only 10% of the area is being used. The rest is stretch space, here for the ongoing e-commerce revolution...
...over with George W. Bush. The Democratic primary debates promise to pit Bradley's $90 billion health care proposal against Gore's preschool plan. "Preschool is a fuzzier, more embraceable issue than health care for the poor," notes Dickerson. "America's just starting to realize that it trails the rest of the world in preschool; meanwhile, big health care plans are a tough sell, even among Democrats...
Although the national champion Harvard women's hockey team is taking a rest over the holidays to lick its wounds after last Friday's 9-2 thrashing at the hands of the United States national team, three other Harvard squads will be in action over the break...
...consumers have shown signs of rebelling against products such as Monsanto's modified seeds, which are at the heart of the company's agribusiness. Those inklings of dissent were enough, apparently, to make up executives' minds: They would complete a merger and quickly cut the agribusiness free from the rest of the company, letting it fend for itself. That amputation, execs hope, will leave Monsanto and Pharmacia & Upjohn's pharmaceuticals division to take the market by storm - unhindered by bad publicity...