Word: season
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Christmas season fast approaches, dot.coms flush with cash from their stock-market offerings, are pumping money into old media and stretching the creative limits of Madison Avenue. "If you don't gain market share now, you're never going to get it," says analyst Henry Blodgett of Merrill Lynch. By the end of this year, e-commerce companies will shell out $2.5 billion on traditional advertising, according to PaineWebber. That may be just a fraction of the $80 billion U.S. ad market, but it's four times what Net firms spent in 1998. For the moment, dot.coms are actually spending...
...likes the baseball play-offs. Purists yearn for the days when just two teams would emerge from the grueling, 162-game slog of the regular season to battle one-on-one on crisp October afternoons. Modern fans too often watch their deserving hometown favorites stumble to an early-round upset. And nonfans run the risk of missing three weeks of Just Shoot...
...Kevin Millwood and Tom Glavine. The rest of the Yankee team is more balanced and more powerful than the Braves. And while Atlanta does have a snorting, 225-lb. alpha male lefthander, John Rocker, in the bullpen, the Yankees can turn to the impeccable Mariano Rivera, whose career post-season record--28 games, two runs allowed--enables New York manager Joe Torre to maintain his equanimity. And it's Torre's almost preternatural calm that keeps the players happy, which keeps the Yankees winning, which keeps George Steinbrenner out of the picture, which keeps Torre...
...tough job it is too, as is Cox's. If the Series that concludes this epic play-off season goes the full seven games through Sunday, one of the managers is going to wake up the next morning and have to face two ugly realities: losing and November...
...CHRISTMAS? Maybe not Laptops may be hard to get this holiday season because of a liquid-crystal-display-panel shortage. Analysts say manufacturers will meet only 86% of demand this year, and you can expect longer wait lists for models with larger screens and higher resolution. The September quake in Taiwan threw off memory-chip production too. Rather than raising prices, some makers may end up giving less bang for your buck. Best advice: buy now or well after Christmas...