Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bruno took him to lunch. He then asked a question that had somehow not occurred to him before: How old are you, anyway? Bruno was floored by the answer. Don't tell anyone, the bank chief warned. Sisler's youth could embarrass co-workers and, worse, anger Bergen's board...
Jeff Taylor knew what he was seeing was no joke. Since January, Taylor, the founder of Monster.com the pioneering online job board, had been hatching his own plans for a Web service that would let job seekers put themselves on the block. And although the eBay geeks didn't sell themselves, the fact that they had given it a go was enough, in Taylor's mind, to "validate the process." So last month Monster rolled out its "talent market," where independent contractors and freelancers can trumpet their skills and put themselves up for auction to prospective employers...
...been quite an experience," says Jack Marshall, founder of Photoloft.com which moves pictures across the Net. His stock, traded on the NASDAQ bulletin board, is down 66%, to less than $3 a share. All 32 of his employees have stock options. The collapse "hasn't really hurt morale because business is so good, we all know we're here for the long term," he says. Still, at many Net firms, the early-year euphoria of optioned employees is gone. Net investors, many of them day-trading online, have had a comeuppance as well. Losses have driven thousands...
Five years ago, few neotraditional neighborhoods existed in the U.S. Today more than 100 are up and running, with an additional 200 on the drawing board. The movement's journal, the New Urban News, says investment in them has nearly doubled, from $1.2 billion in 1997 to $2.1 billion last year. Moreover, local planning boards in sprawl-plagued areas like Miami's Dade County are creating zones dedicated solely to such development...
Council can hand down is expulsion from Harvard Ohousing. To remove a student from the summer school, the case is referred to an Administrative Board similar to the one for undergraduates...