Word: widely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will affect big companies like Sears, there's no question that it has been a boon to small firms. Since our company went online with Railway Productions.com this year, we've been able to reach customers who never knew about our products. After all, how many stores sell a wide selection of videos about trains? Now we don't have to beg and plead with shop owners to give us a try. We just bypass them and go straight to the customer. LES JARRETT Indianapolis...
...male-to-female transgendered person and a lesbian, I appreciated your recognition of the political successes and social challenges of transgender people. In today's culture, I find myself constantly educating others. Your article's breadth, coupled with TIME's wide circulation, will make that part of my life a little easier. In an era when men are said to be "from Mars," transgendered people are nearly the only ones who can speak from experience about the different kinds of treatment that men and women receive. Everyone can benefit from transgendered people's insights. RACHEL HOLLOWGRASS Oakland, Calif...
...Toronto has become one of the world's literary capitals, that is in large part because so many of its contemporary writers have imported the rites and superstitions of their Old Worlds into the wide-open promise of the New--Rohinton Mistry re-creating Bombay of the 1970s in his heartrending A Fine Balance, Anne Michaels piecing together fragments from the Holocaust in her luminous Fugitive Pieces, Michael Ondaatje staging a dance of cosmopolitans in The English Patient. Nino Ricci belongs very much in their company, Italian division. Though his protagonists live in clean, secular Toronto, they carry around...
Palm trees and pink stucco houses, flat blue cloudless skies and wide curving roads, the warm, salty smell of the ocean--home. Yes, I've returned to Southern California where the only bricks are adobe, where the weather is easy to predict and where the sights and sounds are comfortable and familiar...
...process of changing her name from Oksana to Pasha--Russian for passion--and has made no secret of her Hollywood dreams. Now, apparently, Evgeny has decided her virtuosity on the ice is not enough compensation for her tempestuousness off it. On July 19, at the end of an America-wide tour, he told Pasha that he had decided to skate with a rival, MAIA USOVA, left. At least he tried to. Pasha disappeared. He has tried calling since, and she has hung up on him. She claims he hasn't called. Maybe it hurts most because Pasha had a very...