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...market. Anyone going through recruiting has probably noticed that hiring is a little slower this year than in years past, and one of course can't help notice that many companies from all different industries and regions are laying off employees. The thing is, a dot-com firing 200 employees, an auto maker closing one plant and a newly-merged company like AOL Time Warner eliminating 1,200 redundant accountants and secretaries does not add up to a job market like that of the early '90s, when millions of jobs were lost every year. As it stands, the economy...
...Neither side would discuss the deal, reportedly due in six weeks or so. But at first blush - and at the risk of saying anything even remotely optimistic these days about the dot-com economy - it sounds like a nice...
...longer has much hold on the American imagination, and "nouveau riche" is no longer an insult (especially among the nouveau not-so-riche). Nobody wants to be like the Europeans anymore, especially since we got so much richer than them. Nobody likes a rich kid. And the dot-com gold rush, however short-lived, only reinforced the idea that America is supposed to be the land of opportunity...
...most of 2000, once-high-flying telecom equipment maker Lucent Technologies was the poster child for Internet depression. A high-tech AT&T spinoff that, as CEO Henry Schacht went around saying this winter, tried too hard to be a high-speed, high-growth dot-com, Lucent has gone from highly regarded - mentioned in the same bellwether breath as Cisco, Intel and Microsoft - to highly suspect...
...nail-biting Rams-Titans finish - or even Bud's fad-making "Wassup" spots - may be too much to hope for. But at least we won't be wondering this Super Sunday what AutoTrader.com was thinking in putting on a $2 million cartoon. (Though we may miss the dot-com zaniness of things like Cyberian Outpost's flying gerbils...