Word: digitization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...according to the Fur Information Commission, have risen from 1991's low of $1 billion to 1997's $1.27 billion. But this is nowhere near 1987's high of $1.8 billion. Leslie Freund, marketing director for Maximilian, which sells furs at Bloomingdale's stores, says Maximilian has had double-digit increases over the past two years, but won't divulge exact figures. While the bulk of sales continue to be of classic mink coats, Freund says a growing number of young buyers are drawn to fur by the new styles. "Their first fur may be one of these whimsical pieces...
Unlike the e-mail system at Harvard, e-mail accounts at Boston College operate on afive digit identification code. This makes theorigin of last week's hate message difficult totrace...
...inability of some computers to recognize four-digit numbers--for example, incorrectly reading the year 2000 as 00--has resulted in two problems for the University thus far, according to Scott O. Bradner, the Harvard University Year 2000 Project Coordinator...
...stock market," says David Wyss, chief economist at DRI/McGraw-Hill, a consulting firm. "Although there had already been a softening in earnings over the past few quarters, traders needed to be hit with a two-by-four to make them realize you just can't get double-digit increases in earnings every year...
More than a decade ago, college tuitions were increasing at double-digit percentage rates. By last year the average increase had dropped to a more manageable 5%, and some schools, including the entire California state system, actually lowered tuition. But for most families the damage had been done. "Even the low increases in tuition this year were twice the rate of inflation," says Jonathan Satovsky, a New York City- based financial planner with American Express, "much higher than most families can prepare...