Word: nets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Net offers amazing prospects for transforming the way we teach, both adjunct to physical-world classrooms and in its own right as a teaching medium," the message read...
...furthest behind on that," Nesson admits, but he offers the idea of a joint program between the Berkman Center and Jamaica as an example of how the Net might help boost the economies of developing nations...
...what happens? Bezos et al. are catching flak from the same quarters for not caring about profits! Hardly a day goes by that some pundit doesn't blast Net managers for spending recklessly or building without an eye toward making money. The now-stale-but-ever-prevalent knock against the e-companies goes like this: Sure, all well and good, but talk to me when they can make money, if ever. These businesses are worthless until they can make a profit...
Incredibly, amid the catcalls of the skeptics, one constituency seems to practice that old-time religion: online traders. These e-buyers--indeed, they are mostly buyers--believe in the Net long-term. We know it was the e-little guys doing the buying because the average size of each trade was well below a thousand shares. What seems flaky to Wall Street seems downright rigorous to e-Main Street...
...STARTED EARLY: Aside from learning the difference between net and gross points, nothing prepares an actor better than prepubescent training in the theater of the absurd. At age 11, Stiles wrote a letter to the director of New York City's artsy La Mama Theater asking to audition. Soon she was appearing in avant-garde plays and lip-synching to recorded dialogue...