Word: sixing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...size banners that festoon the aisles and walls. "Our vision," reads one, "is the world's most customer-centric company. The place where people come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online." Another banner floats above one of the aisles and lists the company's Six Core Values ("customer obsession, ownership, bias for action, frugality, high hiring bar and innovation"). It's like the Cultural Revolution meets Sam Walton. It's dotcommunism...
...climbs a podium and launches into his Six Core Values speech, which is the linchpin of most of his speaking engagements. He always begins with the watchword of his faith: the customer comes first. "Wake up every morning terrified--not of the competition but of our customers...
After starting 3-0, the Crimson has lost five of its last six and is looking for someone--or a few people--to replace Clemente's 21 points per game and help the Crimson offense down the stretch...
...peace track, this counted as a major breakthrough and one that three men--Assad, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and President Bill Clinton--were eager to exploit. The ailing Assad, 69, seems eager to seize this chance to get back the Golan Heights, which Israel appropriated in the 1967 Six-Day War. Barak came to power pledging to entice Syria back to the negotiating table. And Clinton, who quickly arranged for Barak and Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk Shara to start the talks in Washington this week, was hungry for a foreign policy triumph after the disastrous World Trade Organization conference...
...assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. But until last week, Assad had refused to come to the table unless Barak first agreed to a promise the Syrian leader claims Rabin made: to withdraw Israeli forces to the line separating the armies of the two countries just before the Six-Day War. That line would put Syria on the cusp of the Sea of Galilee, a valuable water source for Israel. Barak insists Rabin never made such a promise, and refused to restart the talks with that boundary locked in ahead of time...