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Word: theses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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And he is still losing his pants. That's maybe the one thing people still really don't understand about the e-commerce revolution. If these are such hot businesses, then why are they hemorrhaging cash? Amazon--the company everyone wants to be like--could lose nearly $350 million this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeffrey Preston Bezos: 1999 PERSON OF THE YEAR | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

But Amazon's losses are also a sign of the New Economics of Internet commerce. These new rules spring from the idea that in the new global marketplace whoever has the most information wins. While it used to be sellers who had all the information, buyers are getting smarter and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeffrey Preston Bezos: 1999 PERSON OF THE YEAR | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Bleary-eyed first-year doctors have long wandered the hallways of America's teaching hospitals, spurred on by superiors determined to subject their prot?g?s to the same 36-hour shifts they endured in years past. In one city, at least, this brutal, long-standing tradition could be on its last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Start Saying Good-bye to the Bleary-Eyed Resident | 12/22/1999 | See Source »

Americans are fed up with 10-page phone bills listing service providers they don't remember contracting with, which have become the norm since 1984. Because of the 1996 act, major telecoms, including AT&T, Bell Atlantic and MCI/Sprint, will eventually be able to package Internet, cable TV, cellular, long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Consumers' Money Be Saved by the Bells? | 12/22/1999 | See Source »

Their owners love them - sport utility vehicles and light trucks now make up almost half of the vehicles on American roads. They also inspire a lot of animosity: They're big, they terrify sedan drivers and they pollute more than cars. But that last complaint is about to change. On...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUVs Set to Get a Kick Up the Tailpipe | 12/21/1999 | See Source »

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