Word: stood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...since 1995 with nary a penny of profit in sight. No matter. Amazon's $5 billion in market value exceeds the combined capitalization of Barnes & Noble and Borders Group, the two largest U.S. bookstore chains. The rise of No. 1 search engine Yahoo has been no less phenomenal. It stood at $181 a share last week after reporting second-quarter earnings of $8.1 million--following three straight years of losses. Ten thousand dollars' worth of Yahoo purchased at IPO in 1996 would be worth $1.68 million today. "Investors are treating the Internet as if it were the next television industry...
...like volcanic lava. I have seen the sheer power of their hatred stop eight lanes of traffic and shatter bus windows. I have witnessed walls of white police officers dressed in riot gear equipped with tear gas, dogs and clubs and yet powered by much more. And I have stood between the two, helpless before the baying masses, but rigidly constrained by the iron wall of police...
...woman stood before me that day in early July, her craggy voice a mixture of outrage and distress. She has been eyeing me suspiciously for some time while I scribbled furiously into a notebook for my summer job as a researcher-writer for the budget travel guide "Let's Go China." She calmed down somewhat with the realization that I was not professionally interested in her personal life, in how she, an Australian, came to become a hostel owner in the Chinese wilderness, apparently a topic of great ongoing interest to the Chinese press...
...costly and outmoded corporate practices. One of those problems has been a degree of fine tuning that seems more appropriate to the world of tailoring. Boeing managers like to describe a ship like the wide-bodied 747 as "6 million parts flying in close formation," and they have long stood ready to customize them not just for every airline but for every single order. Boeing offers the 747's customers 38 different pilot clipboards, for example, and 109 shades of the color white...
...last time Secretary of State Madeleine Albright gave Netanyahu an ultimatum -- in May she told him to show up in Washington prepared to accept the U.S. proposal -- he stood her up and instead unleashed powerful Jewish groups in the U.S. that blasted the administration for bullying him. Albright, who has had more than half a dozen phone conversations with Netanyahu in the past week, "is fed up with the talks," says a State Department official. But to withdraw from them now "without pointing a finger at Israel is not going to be easy. There will be war with Bibi...