Word: siliconing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...last decade, the world has experienced a series of brutal deflationary shocks. They started with the collapse of the Mexican peso in the mid-1990s. In 1997, much of eastern Asia's flourishing economy was leveled. Next were Russia, Turkey and Argentina; Brazil teetered on the brink. Meanwhile, Silicon Valley, the pride of the U.S. economy, was crashing, while entire sectors of the so-called new economy disintegrated. And Japan, the world's second largest economy, was locked in a financial crisis redolent of the 1930s. After the tech wreck, everything from state-of-the-art fiber-optic networks...
...wife and I, natives of Bangladesh, worked at engineering and managerial jobs in California's Silicon Valley for more than 20 years before deciding to return home in 2005. A key factor that helped us decide was the growth of the economy. TIME's cover story validated our thinking. Your story, however, placed too little emphasis on entrepreneurs and development visionaries and too much emphasis on the politicians. Progress in Bangladesh has come because of the efforts of the former and despite the petty bickering of the latter. Ihtisham Kabir Dhaka...
...billion dollars it’s not, but Facebook.com has snagged $25 million in venture capital investments from three Silicon Valley firms...
...take the initiative and frees individuals to get on with their lives unhindered by intrusive or ineffective government. Certain stretches of the 1990s felt like that, when the Clinton White House was distracted by its personal and legal troubles and all the energy and enterprise was coming from Silicon Valley and smart city mayors and the private sector...
...started farther south, so that instead of breaking away from the city it had aimed right toward it? What if it had started farther north and broken south? In the first instance, the tentative answer is that San Francisco gets shaken even harder; in the second, it's Silicon Valley and the Livermore Valley that find themselves clamped in the lion's jaws. "1906 is the most powerful earthquake we can imagine hitting Northern California," says Mary Lou Zoback, head of the USGS Northern California Earthquake Hazards Program. "But it may not have been the worst-case scenario...