Word: splits
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Hundreds of companies marketing clothes and accessories dedicated to the "board-sports" life-style are operating in Velcro Valley. They range from Oakley, the $200 million sunglasses-and-footwear firm housed in a futuristic, $47 million hilltop bunker, to smaller fry like Black Flys, Split and Volcom, crowded into Costa Mesa and Huntington Beach industrial parks...
...billion last year, and the men's and women's active-wear markets grew from $69 billion to $73 billion, according to the NPD Group. For leading Velcro Valley manufacturers like Quiksilver, that means a one-year, 37% increase in sales, to $316 million. Smaller firms like Hurley, Split, Girl, World, Ezekiel, Rusty and Shorties are reporting steady growth on sales of anywhere from $10 million to $70 million...
OFFICIAL REASON FOR SPLIT: Oddly, the stars' publicists declined comment...
Encarta Africana costs were split between Perseus and Microsoft. Microsoft is paying for the CD-ROM, Perseus is paying for the book and each company contributed $1 million to other costs, including research and writing...
...will happen when 01-01-00 rolls around. Whether we'll be glad we were panicked into action or we'll disown the doomsayers depends on how diligently the programmers do their job in the next 50 weeks. One thing is already clear. In a century in which man split the atom, spliced genes and turned silicon into data, the tale of Y2K--how we ignored it for 40 years, then flew into a tizzy--will not be remembered as our finest hour...