Word: dotcomers
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...enough, slowing a stellar career to finish raising a family has never looked better. According to America's Research Group, a market-research firm, 32% of married couples with children think one parent should spend more time with the kids, up from 18% just five years ago. In this dotcom economy, lots of two-income families have accumulated enough money and workplace stress to act on that impulse. Throw in a few headlines about the dangers facing today's teenagers, and taking time off--or at least cutting back--seems imperative...
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...process, make a bundle for himself and his backers. But take a look at the runners-up, and you will find a few surprises--unpleasant ones, for an industry that pays dearly for celebrity wattage to attract customers. The return on star investment is falling like a dotcom stock. Hollywood bosses have to wonder: Have we entered the poststar...
...Dotcom-driven rents have become a hot-button election issue. Two propositions headed for the November ballot in San Francisco attack the way tech firms have wiggled around strict zoning restrictions on office space by defining their space as anything but an office. The radical Prop L would force live-work lofts to be used as affordable housing and ban dotcom development in areas like the Mission. The much milder Prop K, backed by Mayor Willie Brown and an assortment of business interests, would limit dotcoms in only a couple of neighborhoods--and compensate with a hefty raise...
With so many dotcom bankruptcies hitting the business pages, it may seem as if the stock market has already sorted out this rent problem. Not true, says DeVol. "If the dotcom market slows down, there's still going to be some high-valued part of the technology industry to take the space. Venture capital has to go somewhere. This is a long-term problem...