Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from oceangoing ships to smaller boats heading further upriver, and has long been a center of commerce. Here are department stores with imported brands, stock-trading houses, U.S. fast-food chains--and "Balls," a newly opened NBA theme bar run by a former car salesman from Taiwan. Not so slick as Shanghai, Wuhan still has its pretensions, enough to attract people such as "Johnny" Wang Liang, a hairdresser who left fashion-conscious Guangzhou "because it was already full of people like me." Wang finds Wuhan fairly tame and doesn't like the food, but he is making good money dyeing...
...product arenas Microsoft is stomping into these days, none looks more enticing than financial services, a $1 trillion-plus industry built on just the sort of slick software at which Bill Gates & Co., um, excel. Led by its financial-management title, Microsoft Money and its brilliantly realized investment Website, Microsoft Investor investor.msn.com) the company has more than made its mark in home-financial software. But consumer-side successes are just the tip of the Microsoft iceberg, and industry watchers wonder whether giants like Chase and Citi might yet turn into Titanics...
...Christians, the hot spot this Sunday was Trinity Church, Boston. Dozens of the Harv-peeps made their appearances in Copley. From slick pin-stripped undergrads to lavender-draped Fine Arts profs, the holy space was crawling with the bee-like insects (what do you call them...
...director, concedes that the image of GeoCities as a high-traffic, low-value enterprise is the "initial perception about building your brand in a self-publishing environment." But he counters that argument by pointing out that "there's a user passion that you don't get at slick, professionally produced sites. And it's reflected in a much better click-through rate." He claims that 4 percent of visitors click through ads on GeoCities' pages, as opposed to the industry standard 1 percent. "Top national advertisers are less concerned with the quality of the material than the fact that...
...Santos islands like a rag doll tossed into a washing machine. Then he got another chance. He spotted a second wave, even bigger than the first, and paddled straight for it. As he reached the crest, Knox smoothly swiveled, stood up on his board and started sliding down a slick expanse of water as steep as a cliff. Somehow he stayed in control, even though he flew 6 or 7 ft. through the air so that, for a split second, he was free-falling. Exclaimed Knox, who's from Carlsbad, Calif.: "It was like the best roller-coaster ride...