Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...station. Amazon's stock, which rose more than 37 points in a single day last week, is flirting with doubling its value in the month of November alone. Analysts attribute that rise mainly to the seemingly boundless potential of e-commerce, or retailing on the Internet--a subject fresh on the minds of shoppers and investors this holiday season. Internet consumers will buy $3.5 billion worth of goods in the last three months of this year, and $7.8 billion for the year, according to Forrester Research of Cambridge, Mass. That's a thin slice of the overall retailing...
...circle round the subject and settle, for want of a better landing spot, on my sister's words: Be careful there. Be careful...
...have spoken with my friend Campbell a total of a hundred times, yet I cannot recollect a single idea exchanged or the substance of a subject addressed. He knew that I wished him well, and I knew that he wished me the same. The day he died--before I learned that he had died--I called to him on his bike, mistaking a man of similar build and helmet for my friend. Later, when told of his death, I thought of that other man (I don't know why), and I pictured him pedaling away with a bright wave...
Senior writer John Greenwald wrote his first cover story for TIME in 1982; the subject...
...bleak mid-'30s, the Journal stirred to life under the prodding of a genius in shirtsleeves from the fields of Indiana, Barney Kilgore. He preached three dictums: Keep it simple, broaden the subject matter beyond finance to everything affecting earning a living, and make the Journal America's first national daily newspaper. "Don't write banking stories for bankers," he ordered. "Write for the banks' customers. There are a hell of a lot more depositors than bankers." Helped by the public's warm interest in business and industry during World War II and then by the postwar boom, Kilgore...