Word: term
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...something better. Wal-Mart is doing what it has always done, notes DLJ analyst Gary Balter: watching, learning and biding its time before swooping in for the kill. "By no means should anyone assume that Wal-Mart's not going to be a major, major player in the longer term on the Internet," Balter says, "because it will...
...leading logistics company in the world, but it is not set up for shipping directly to consumers, an essential link in the e-commerce chain. To fill the gap, Wal-Mart has contracted Books-A-Million and Fingerhut to pick, pack and ship online orders--most likely a short-term solution. The company will also have to grasp how online shoppers shop. Choosing products to splash on its home page isn't like stocking razor blades by the check-out. "This is where it's behind the learning curve," Cooperstein says, "but it will learn." And before long...
...claim credit for this performance, but over the past dozen years, Greenspan's quiet confidence and masterly control of the nation's money supply have done much to convince consumers and Congress that the investment-driven economic growth is real. Although Chairman Greenspan will be 74 when his third term expires next June, the job remains his for the asking. As presidential contender John McCain suggested earlier this month, the one sure way to continue America's economic prosperity is to have Greenspan stay on, whether he is alive or dead. "If Mr. Greenspan should happen to die, God forbid...
...category so broad as to be useless. "It's used for everyone from the person who cheats on his income taxes to Attila the Hun," says Fred Berlin, associate professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins medical school. "It's a label masquerading as an explanation." Others wonder whether the term is simply a catchall psychological description for people who are habitual criminals. Yet proponents argue that the disorder's core ingredients--a lifelong pattern of behavior, a willingness to break rules and hurt others, a lack of empathy or guilt--set certain criminals apart. "Empathy is what stops...
...from those of the rest of the population, with less gray matter in the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that regulates behavior and social judgment. Just last month University of Iowa neurobiologist Antonio Damasio reported findings from a study showing that early brain injuries affect the long-term ability to distinguish between right and wrong...