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...seem to be a deep tan, heavy airbrushing round the jowls and removing that fuddy-duddy tie and sports coat and replacing it with a "modern look" T-shirt and dark jacket. (If that seems a touch "Miami Vice," it's intentional - most game shows operate in a time-lag that's exactly 15 years behind the real world...
There will be at least a few years lag time between the inception of the program this year and its accreditation...
...longer confined to the stock market. The economic uprising that rocked eToys, Priceline.com Pets.com and all the other www.s has now spread to blue-chip tech companies and Old Economy stalwarts. Now it's Microsoft warning, for the first time in more than a decade, that quarterly earnings will lag behind estimates. It's Union Pacific railroad announcing that 2,000 employees will be involuntarily disembarking. It's steelmaker LTV filing for bankruptcy for the second time in 14 years. It's Montgomery Ward announcing that it is ending 128 years of American retailing history by closing its 250 stores...
Despite concern that giving would lag after the campaign, the UDO is on track to raise money for a number of new University-wide initiatives and specific growth within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). The office stayed its course through clearly defined goals and targeted donor appeals...
...free dividend. Early this year 3Com sold 17% of its white-hot Palm unit in an IPO, then gave the rest to shareholders in July. The average carve-out does well. Palm has doubled since July, although it remains below March's mania levels. But parent companies tend to lag in this case (not so 3Com), probably because they have left a sexy business...