Word: shoeing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Instead, many analysts see Amazon's biggest growth coming from its international operations, expansion into new merchandise and the addition of more third-party sellers. Its November acquisition of online shoe giant Zappos, for example, contributed $200 million of revenue to the company's fourth quarter. The number of active third-party sellers rose 27% to 1.9 million, and revenue from international sales climbed 49% to $4.56 billion in the latest quarter...
...Shoe-wearing runners have adapted their gait to their footwear, according to a recent study led by Harvard evolutionary biologist Daniel E. Lieberman ’86 and published in Nature magazine...
...study examines how runners coped with the force of collision on their feet before the introduction of the modern running shoe in the 1970s. Comparing habitually barefoot runners with shoe-wearing runners, Lieberman and his fellow researchers found that runners who run with footwear tended to land on their heels, while runners who run barefoot tended to land on the front or middle parts of their feet...
...printed shoe fell on Wednesday, when the New York Times partially lifted the veil on its plan to charge for access to its website. Speculation has been rife in media circles on how the nation's most influential and successful paper would go about touching what some consider to be the third rail of Web content. The Times' answer? Very gingerly. In effect, the paper seems to be asking its readers, Don't you really actually want...
...about a year now, we've been hearing that commercial real estate is the next shoe to drop, the next big financial debacle. And for about a year now, the oft-predicted crisis has stubbornly refused to materialize. It's not that everything's fine in the commercial real estate business. Everything's awful and will probably get more awful. But unlike 2008's Wall Street panic, this particular financial unraveling looks as if it will play out over a period of years, not weeks...