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...Thursday nightto be first in line at discount stores Friday morning for all those $45 VCRs and $99 TVs). Confronted with surging stock markets, shrinking unemployment and virtually nonexistent inflation, retailers - and e-tailers - could be forgiven for feeling especially confident that in the next five weeks they will surpass even last year's whopping $170 billion in sales for the holiday shopping season. Truly, the most wonderful time of the year...
...elected government should reflect not merely the majority will, but a portion of the vote in proportion to its size. Cambridge relies upon a particularly intricate system to achieve this end: candidates are ranked by voters and their preferences tallied in a number of successive counts. Those candidates who surpass a predetermined quota are elected, and the votes are redistributed appropriately for subsequent counts, until all nine city councilors have been determined...
...Crimson can surpass expectations tomorrow by proving it has addressed two of its main deficiencies from last year--passing offense and run defense. Columbia was able to hold Harvard to 91 yards through the air while churning out 196 on the ground...
...report, Resizing Online Business Trade, predicts that B2B e-commerce will hit a total of $1.3 trillion by 2003, accounting for 9.4% of total U.S. business sales. Varda Lief (see the box, following), a senior analyst at Forrester specializing in e-commerce, says business-to-business transactions will far surpass business-to- consumer deals and dwarf giants like eBay and Amazon.com in revenue and sales. "Business-to-business is the stuff that makes everything run," says Lief...
...crashes involving drivers 70 and older have risen 42%, to some 4,928 in 1997. In 20 years, the number of 70-plus drivers will have ballooned to 30 million, and highway-safety experts warn that the number of people killed in crashes involving elderly motorists is likely to surpass the drunk-driving death toll. While it is true that drivers 60 and older have a lower accident rate than younger ones, and that some seniors drive safely into their 90s, others are impaired by such ailments as poor vision, slow reflexes, partial paralysis and dementia. Attempts to identify unfit...