Word: touche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most popular products sold online are what one industry expert calls the ``distance stuff,'' such as books, software, outdoor gear, packaged foods and collectibles, that people can buy without needing to touch them or try them on. These are the same products, in fact, that Americans normally buy through mail-order catalogs, which rang up $57 billion in sales last year. Craig Gugel, senior vice president for interactive media for Ted Bates in New York City, compares the present state of online advertising with the early days of cable TV, just before its rapid growth during the mid-1980s. Says...
...friends; it's just not geographically local,'' says Carolyn Ybarra, an anthropology Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University. When Ybarra moved west from Minneapolis, her online quilting group threw an in-person farewell party. Since then, she has become good friends with two of her fellow quilters, keeping in constant touch online. ``I feel just as close to these women as I do to my college friends,'' she says. ``I tell them more up-to-date details of my personal life, more often, because their response is so quick.'' Ybarra was fortunate to encounter
...zealots believe that sex education and the use of birth control are wrong and should not be encouraged. Their ultimate solution to unwanted pregnancies is that people should simply abstain from sex until they are ready to procreate. While this plan works theoretically, it is by no means in touch with societal reality...
...album, Cracked Rear View, has become an unexpected commercial smash, selling more than a million copies. Hold My Hand, a catchy sing-along number from the album, is in Billboard's Top 10. The music-video channel VH-1-once seen as a kind of easy-listening, out-of-touch uncle of MTV-recently changed its format to feature contemporary "adult alternative" acts, and has virtually adopted Hootie as its house band, playing its videos more often than those of any other group. And when Hootie appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman two weeks ago, the host held...
...Medicare. Last year it weighed in at $162.5 billion and is expected to grow to $286 billion by the year 2000. However, previous attempts to tinker with the health insurance enjoyed by 36.3 million aging voters have earned Medicare the title of ``the third rail of American politics.'' Touch it and you're dead...