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Word: watching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Banana Republic's main branch in San Francisco and the store will provide you with a lift home. Want to avoid the hassle of Christmas-gift buying altogether? Seattle-based Nordstrom's will give you a personal shopper, who will make selections while you sit in comfort and watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That's Retail-tainment! | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...drop of a hat. That (one recalls with a shudder) was the goal of the so-called men's movement of Robert Bly et al. in the 1980s and early '90s, which exhorted men to express their feelings. If anyone doubts the perils of men expressing feelings, he should watch The McLaughlin Group or Cable Monica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Silent Friendships of Men | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...Watch How Funds Overlap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Money: Dec. 7, 1998 | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

Staring out from their photographs, they are the archetypal tycoons: one a steely-eyed Scot with a spade-shaped white beard; another a craggy, Ichabod Crane look-alike; the third a fat cat in striped pants with a watch chain strung across an ample paunch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blessed Barons | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...iron bridges. When he was 33, the rich young man privately lectured himself that his continued pursuit of wealth "must degrade me beyond hope of permanent recovery." Yet he couldn't abandon the money chase. "Put all your eggs into one basket," Carnegie once advised, "and then watch that basket." For him that basket brimmed with steel. Fiercely competitive, obsessed with innovation and efficiency--he would unhesitatingly scrap a relatively new plant to erect a more modern one--Carnegie imported the Bessemer forced-air steel process to America. Such innovation permitted him to reduce the price of rails--the product...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blessed Barons | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

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