Word: well
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...provides a nearly perfect vehicle for reaching well-heeled customers with a taste for vinyl pushup bras or fur-lined handcuffs. Ann Summers got into Internet sales in the past two years and says its site www.annsummers.com averages a million hits a month. In August 1997 the company's monthly Internet sales stood at a mere $6,100; by last August the figure had climbed to $42,575. Beate Uhse expects online sales www.beate-uhse.com to hit $32.8 million this year...
More important, the candidate who had promised to tear up all his talking points seemed to have done it. And, for once, the audiences seemed unscripted as well. Over the course of two days, Gore took questions on everything from global warming to cloudy tapwater, from prescription drugs to extraterrestrials. As he left the state on Friday, more than 1,000 Gore volunteers bused in from 14 states were preparing to knock on 100,000 New Hampshire doors...
...results are tantalizing. Using an experimental genetically engineered vaccine, doctors have been able to trick the body into attacking prostate cancer. The vaccine consists of a patient's own cancer cells culled from the surgically removed tumor. When injected, the body recognizes the cells in the vaccine--as well as any lingering cells from the tumor--as foreign invaders and launches an all-out immune-system attack. Promising, yes. But whether further tests pan out is yet to be seen...
...demand this year, and you can expect longer wait lists for models with larger screens and higher resolution. The September quake in Taiwan threw off memory-chip production too. Rather than raising prices, some makers may end up giving less bang for your buck. Best advice: buy now or well after Christmas...
...show has faithfully reproduced the 1977 John Travolta movie about a working-class Brooklyn kid with big dreams and hot dance moves, with the familiar Bee Gees music (including two new songs written by the Gibb brothers) integrated into the story. One of the pleasant surprises is how well these numbers sound in the theater: How Deep Is Your Love becomes a richly layered love duet; What Kind of Fool is a passionate expression of loss; and Night Fever is, well, a blast...