Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Digest, while it accounts for only 26% of the company's revenues, provides the brand name that has been used as a front door to roll out a range of books, music and videos, sold mostly through direct marketing. These home and entertainment divisions bring in the bulk of the sales and profits. Recent attempts to move into new markets through joint ventures with Avon (to sell magazines with makeup) and Microsoft (to create CD-ROMs) have been unsuccessful. At Digest's immensely profitable overseas businesses, which accounted for 57% of its revenues last year, sales have fallen from...
...parents' restrictions benefited them in the long run by fostering a love of reading. "I think school is geared toward people who have read a lot," says Bradley-Moore. Bertozzi adds, "I'm glad my parents did it, because now I just kind of see through television. Commercials just roll me. Now, there are some programs that I think are really worthwhile, like "The Simpsons"--the Simpsons are the lifeblood of America--but most of it is just a waste of time...
...into recession. Saddam was bent on hanging on to his oil-rich conquest. Stocks were down, and oil prices had briefly doubled to $40 per bbl. There was a lot to fight for. This time around, stocks are high and oil is low. The economy is on a historic roll. And Saddam isn't strong enough to upset any of that greatly; he is merely being defiant. Where is the market's upside...
Before the North American rivals get to that matchup, there will be four other Dream Teams to get through--Sweden, Russia, the Czech Republic and Finland--none of which will roll over. The "Big Sheet," the offense-friendly, Olympic-size playing surface that is 13 1/2 ft. wider than the NHL's, will help the smaller, speedier European teams, as should the stiff penalties against fighting. The Swedes took advantage of this in their first game, swirling around the Americans and winning 4-2. And because a hot goaltender can control a short series, the Czechs could take gold because...
What perplexes me is that in the face of such rock-and-roll feminist epithets as, "It was so great to see women controlling the liquor...playing pool instead of watching men play pool," the group still aligns itself with the all-male final clubs. If Sears' comment is any indication of the historic and prevailing final club attitude toward women ("We tried to get them to understand what goes into running a club. We tried to explain to them that being a landlord is no fun at all"), why, women of the Bee, do you have...