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Word: textbooks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dark paint. (If you don't have these yet, you're really missing out.) But most of all, my notes record fights that I don't even remember now, crushes that met their unrequited demise, people whose names I barely recognize as former friends--and, like insignificant textbook lines that one later goes back to highlight, the earliest mentions of people who slowly, but only very slowly, became the five or 10 or 15 people who matter...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: The Final Exam | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

...Oklahomans, the scene of destruction conjured up the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Much of their state was in textbook chaos: trees in living rooms, roofs blown off, crumpled cars in fields where cows should have been and dead livestock festooning parking lots. But at the big storm's extensive ground zero, the landscape was closer to lunar. Returnees sometimes had trouble locating not just their homes but their neighborhood. In Mulhall, a hamlet north of Oklahoma City, the only store was flattened, the water tower torn down, and every one of the 200 homes damaged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Funnel of Death | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

...MARRIAGE OF A FLEDGLING Internet venture and creative e-mail solicitation, OurSquare.com occupies a position in Harvard's e-commerce scene. Competing with sites like varsitybooks.com (online textbook sales), OurSquare offers a decidedly different product: unabashed elitism...

Author: By D. M. Rosenblatt, | Title: WWW.EXCLUSION.net | 5/6/1999 | See Source »

...just get this straight. You can't find it in your textbook. It's not a "reading...

Author: By Diane W. Lewis, | Title: POWER POETS MAKE A BIG NOISE WITH SLAM | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

...implementing an internet-based program that facilitates online book ordering. Such a program would have two components--first, students would be able to select the courses that they plan to take and have the program generate a report showing them the cheapest possible combination through which to order their textbooks online--including links to the booksellers, complete with pre-generated "shopping baskets" to speed up the ordering process. Second, the Undergraduate Council would establish "affiliations" with a variety of online booksellers that enable it to receive commissions of up to 15% on each referral that result in a textbook sale...

Author: By Michael Shumsky, CHAIR UC BOOK PROJECT | Title: Lowering Your Book Prices | 4/28/1999 | See Source »

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