Word: parr
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kind of consumer is about to emerge as the Internet revolution spills over the edges of the computer revolution's territory. "The next wave is people who never wanted to buy a PC," says Barry Parr, an analyst at International Data Corp. Even as early as 2003, analysts expect, a third of online households will be spending around $50 billion through non-PC devices...
...salmon move through their cycle of birth, maturation, reproduction and death, they migrate through a variety of ecosystems where they are vulnerable almost every step of the way. The eggs A hatch in shallow streams, releasing larvae, or alevins B, which within a few months become juvenile fish called parr. Parr, in turn, grow into 8-in. smolts C in about two years, and it is these small, silvery fish that make the improbable migration from freshwater river to saltwater ocean. Smolts that survive the trip--and plenty don't--spend four years at sea, feeding and growing to full...
...that "20 percent of Americans are 'birders,' spending $14.4 billion a year on trips, equipment, magazines, etc." Damian Wisniewski '01 questions the data saying, "It sounds downright sketchy. I believe that it is Audubon propaganda and I would like to see some evidence to back up that statement." Rich Parr '01 agrees with Wisniewski's skepticism and wonders, "Does the 20 percent count people who 'birdwatch' with guns...
...would brag about cutting up cats and squirrels and even claimed to have blown up a cow. Like many local teenagers, he hunted deer, with a rifle his father gave him last year. He seemed to take pleasure in killing. "Other kids say, 'I got a deer,'" recalls Lindsay Parr, 14. "But he was, 'Oh, yeah, I sliced it open...
...When you stretch yourself that far [in addressing so many issues], it's hard to see how he'll keep all the surplus from social security but still do his reforms," Parr said...