Word: sawing
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After batting against Morris in practice, the Owls now saw their opponents' pitches as if they were in slow motion and made it to the second round of the play-offs. Morris heard a radio ad for a tryout with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in a neighboring town. So last June 19, in 103[degree] heat, the 35-year-old showed up with his mitt and his three young children...
...realized that e-commerce is an attitude of doing things faster, being more accurate, having better technology," Kathwari says. "I saw that it could improve every element of our business." But first Kathwari had to finish a four-year project to integrate the computer systems at all Ethan Allen stores, 70% of which are privately owned. He also needed to convince store owners that they wouldn't be hurt by the new site, which he will do by crediting a fraction of each online sale to the Ethan Allen store of the customer's choice. Now that the site...
...fear that caused Tom Furber to found HomeRuns.com an online grocery-delivery business, in 1996. "I was very concerned that somebody else not in the grocery-retailing space was going to beat us to it," says Furber, vice president for Hannaford Bros., the Scarborough, Maine, supermarket chain that saw $3.3 billion in revenues in 1998, and has since been acquired by Food Lion. "In hindsight, we could have gotten into this later...
...Atlanta doctor for five years and had a daughter, Stephanie St. Onge, now 40), an older woman (she's eight years Bradley's senior), a comparative literature Ph.D. and professor--she was not a sports fan. She says she had no idea who "Dollar Bill" was. "I saw him once or twice. We didn't even say hello," she recalls. She had taken the year off from her teaching to work for a film company. One project was to get an athlete to interview Marianne Moore, the poet and baseball fan, and Schlant was asked to approach Bradley. Moore died...
...cool night in 1986, I was invited to take part in an unprecedented concert held at the Beijing Workers' Stadium. The place was packed. I sang an original tune, Nothing to My Name, which people seemed to like. When the concert ended and I stepped outside, I saw some kids on the street imitating my moves. Few Chinese really knew what rock 'n' roll was back then. But we knew it was something that gave out energy. It was music with a message...