Word: frontierment
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...Kings sat virtually alone in the frontier of the West, a weak franchise that had only recently shed its putrid yellow and purple jerseys. Their sole claim on hockey lore consisted of one player--Marcel Dionne...
...Kings sat virtually alone in the frontier of the West, a weak franchise that had only recently shed its putrid yellow and purple jerseys. Their sole claim on hockey lore consisted of one player--Marcel Dionne...
...with 150 employees and real revenue, has a good chance of launching a successful offering. Adult companies have gone public before--Playboy Enterprises in 1993 and New Frontier Media last year--but none of them, served up amid a frenzied IPO market, have been pure Internet plays. (One other, much less endowed company, efox.net Inc., has registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an IPO.) And remember, many recent Internet IPO stars were companies with no earnings--think Marketwatch, theglobe.com and Geocities. IEG is already hugely profitable. If it were comparably valued, it would be worth hundreds of millions...
...placed his bets on creating a flexible, U.S.-style labor market in which companies are free to hire and fire as they please. He also needs people who are willing to adapt to new realities. Koreans like Chung "are breaking the old attitudes," Kim told TIME. "They have the frontier spirit...
...many young people, the new frontier has been liberating. As a university student, photojournalist Kim Woo Kyoung fantasized about becoming a taxi driver just to have a chance to drive around and meet ordinary people, but he felt social pressure to stick to a narrow range of "respectable" career choices. Recently Kim left a large television network to set up his own media company. Says Kim: "IMF has broken down the university-credential wall...