Word: took
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heard horror stories about how long it would take to install the cable modem. These turned out to be untrue. Since I already had a TV-cable outlet in my home office, it took the cable guy half an hour to plug in the modem, drop an Ethernet card into my PC and configure it all. Bing, bang, I'm online at 5 or more megabits...
Recently, during one of our regular Sunday dinners, my mother complained of some aches and pains. She asked me my opinion, and like any good doctor, I replied, "When did you have your last complete physical and blood tests?" The time it took for her to remember was answer enough. Not only had it been too long, but she hadn't been given basic blood tests that most women should have on a periodic basis. So when the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists revised its screening recommendations for women two weeks ago, I immediately sent a copy...
...chopped-up celebrities worth more than whole regular people? You betcha. Following reports that callipygian singer/actress Jennifer Lopez insured her bodacious back end for a tidy $300,000,000 (and her entire body for $1 billion), we dug up other personalities who took out similar policies. Below, the world's most expensive Frankenstein...
...fairness, Ivester inherited Goizueta's strategy. And he took office just as Coke's foreign markets, which account for nearly 75% of its profits, were sinking from Moscow to Manila beneath a worldwide wave of currency devaluations. That tanked sales and turned many of the lavish investments that Coke had been making in overseas ventures into instant losers...
...company of attempting to Coca-Colonize the planet. In one confrontation last spring, the European Community forced Coke to scale back its $1.85 billion purchase of the foreign rights to Cadbury Schweppes beverage brands, which prevented the company from marketing Crush, Dr Pepper and Canada Dry in Europe. That took the fizz out of one-quarter of the company's global sales...