Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...theory was that we needed to get somesolid data, and so we'd do a one-year experimentin house traffic," said Stewart
...harder than ever for its slice of the profit. Wal-Mart's share of the $35 billion toy-retailing industry has grown from 10% in 1990 to 16% this year; over the same period Target's share has more than doubled, to 7%. The discount stores use toys as "traffic builders," attracting families with low prices on popular toys and then making higher profits on such items as clothing and appliances. "Wal-Mart and Target carry only the 50 or 100 hottest toys," says David Miller, president of the Toy Manufacturers of America. "Toys are only a fraction of their...
That's why Internet telephony is a big thing that's only getting bigger. Vint Cerf, one of the Internet's founding fathers, estimates that as much as half of all long-distance traffic will go over the Net by the year 2010--and he should know, since he now works for MCI. By 1999, an estimated 16 million people will have purchased (from VocalTec and others), or downloaded for free, software that enables them to talk to fellow computer owners through their PCs, although if you go this route, you will probably also need a sound card and microphone...
Alan Greenspan doesn't hurry often-- at least not in front of the cameras. But a few weeks ago the paparazzi caught the cucumber-cool Fed chairman hustling across Constitution Street in Washington, dodging traffic on his way to announce the Fed's first interest-rate cut in three years. Wall Street had seen it coming, and in New York the markets yawned. But Greenspan wasn't done running. He cut rates again on Thursday without waiting for the next Fed meeting, a dramatic move that caught Wall Street off guard. It was almost unprecedented in Greenspan's term...
...There was a lot of [foot] traffic, but not a lot of sales. We actually did better yesterday," said Victoria L. Kalman, of the Mass. Army and Navy store...