Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...betting the UPS brass doubled over in envy as they watched shares of rival FedEx nearly triple in a seven-month stretch, ignited by explosive e-commerce activity last holiday season. Kelly calls the market's valuation of Internet stocks "speculative" and says his planned IPO "is not the result of what any other company is doing." Still, Zona Research estimates 55% of the goods bought online during the holidays were delivered by UPS. FedEx got a mere 10%. UPS management must have imagined the possibilities. (The U.S. Postal Service, by the way, delivered 32% of e-packages, a strong...
...most well-balanced among us a bit nutty. They're too small to feel when they're crawling on your skin. They pack their own anesthetic, so you don't realize they're burying their heads in your body. And they suck your blood for hours at a stretch. Besides grossing you out, ticks may carry certain bacteria that can make you very, very sick, as thousands of folks in the Northeast and Midwest who have developed Lyme disease can tell...
...parent knows that few pleasures match the sight of a child who's flushed and beaming after a romp on a stretch of turf. Travel teams in particular can do much to melt away the inhibitions between parents and their teens. "On about the seventh hour of a road trip from western Pennsylvania," says lawyer Robert Luskin of Washington, "you tend to hear things you wouldn't otherwise...
...enter the European Union, and it was easy to see why Bonn was nervous: Turkish-owned businesses were firebombed across Germany overnight Wednesday, as the country, which plays host to 1.5 million Turks and almost half a million Kurds, threatened to erupt in violence. Ocalan?s networks of supporters stretch all across Europe, and the U.S. stepped up security at a number of its embassies and closed two consulates in Turkey Wednesday fearing retaliation from Kurdish militants who accuse Washington of helping Turkey capture their leader...
This combination of strict requirements and vague wording--plus a $100 limit on materials--forces kids to stretch their brains. And while each team has a coach, often a teacher or parent, that person is forbidden to give instruction. Says Arlene Cohen, 26, a math teacher who coaches John's team at Princeton Day School in Princeton, N.J.: "We're supposed to push them along but never give them solutions. Sometimes I have to leave the room to keep from blurting out advice...