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...know about cotton. None of us had a clue what a dot-com was, but we all know what orange juice is. Before you go to work every morning, you use cotton and wool and silk and rubber and rice and wheat and corn and orange juice and coffee and sugar. Nobody can understand IBM. The chairman of the board of IBM can never understand IBM completely. It's got hundreds of thousands of employees. All you've got to do with cotton is figure out if there's too much or too little. That is not easy...
...ceremony not only marked what would have been his father's 87th birthday, but also an historic moment in U.S. history - the national debt was shrinking. Because the clock wasn't built to count backwards, Durst pulled the plug. Just two years later, following the burst of the dot-com bubble and the economic fall-out of 9/11, he turned it back on. The billboard has ticked forward ever since...
...Michael Phelps Rules!I disagree with mark reese?s com?ments in Inbox regarding swimmer Michael Phelps [Sept. 8]. It may be true that Phelps had the advantages of technology in breaking Mark Spitz?s speed records; however, Phelps-with his laser-sleek swimsuits and streamlined swimming caps-competed for his eight medals against other athletes with the exact same advantages. Phelps won those medals fair and square and should not have to justify his victories to those who think he should have done it the ?old-fashioned way.? Janice Heidt, Houston...
...Though Corning’s financial position was strong throughout the 1990s, its fortunes dropped sharply following the end of the dot-com boom when the company’s large investments in optical communications soured. As the stock fell to just five percent of its previous value, Corning’s board turned to their trusted leader to revive the company, even though he had been retired for six years...
...Justice calls the hoopla a reminder of "just how difficult it is today to control the destination of images and the integrity of their meaning." Indeed, that integrity seems to get fuzzier with each new viewer clicking play - and, for that matter, with each new dot-com article about...