Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lead to sex or drugs or violence. "Most teenage pregnancies happen between 2 and 5 in the afternoon," says Les Franklin, founder of the Shaka Franklin Foundation for Youth, a nonprofit group based in Denver that provides counseling and other services for urban youngsters. "In our neighborhoods, the concept of 'soccer mom' doesn't exist...
...able to have you come to office hours no matter what the level of the course--seemed a pleasant fiction. This was just a small section of the tour, alongside a discussion of writing seminars and thesis advising and other truly responsive pieces of the undergraduate career, but the concept of boasting class girth brought on a giggle...
...other was the desire to be supportive of the concept behind this new institute especially since part of its broad purpose will include research on women's lives and careers," she said...
Internet stocks have defied convention and gravity for the better part of two years. Never mind that to these outfits, profit is mostly a concept. They had cool products, hip clients, catchy names, irreverent ads, promise--lots of promise--and more. They had panache. They were cocktail chatter, and their stocks (and stockholders) were giddy. The money-losing online bookseller Amazon.com long ago blew past venerable Sears in terms of market value. At the time, investors gasped and marveled. They kept buying, but at least they noticed. By April, though, Amazon's worth was fast approaching that of Sears...
Others from the current crop of Net IPOs may represent new opportunities, but in niche--and thus limited--markets. Still others are so nascent that they are little more than a concept hoping to cash in quickly. Profits? They don't even have revenue. Drugstore.com an online prescription-drug company, has filed for an IPO even though it has only three months of formal results. The IPO may do well anyway. The company has a top-notch underwriter in Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. It is the first online company of its kind to attempt to sell shares to the public...