Word: started
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kevin Landis, who manages the Firsthand Technology Fund, ventures that this may prove to be a good time to start buying Net stocks if you've been out of the game--and are a long-term investor. So, you're jumping in with both feet, right, Kevin? After he stops laughing, Landis says, "We've just got away from the scary point at which people say, 'I don't know how to value it, but I have to own it anyway.' [But] we're nowhere near levels where you can start making a value argument...
...issuers to pull back, and few have. Last week Drkoop.com a consumer health-care site headed by the former Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop, doubled the first day, proving that a good story still sells. High-profile CNN anchor Lou Dobbs has announced that he will resign to start Space.com proving that entrepreneurs still believe there's time to build a Net company and cash...
...exceeded expectations in 13 years. It should be let go to rest peacefully. More efforts should be devoted to international space stations...The thing is bound to wear out, and that could be catastrophic if it was manned." --Pete Conrad, astronaut and CEO of Universal Space Lines, a start-up space airline
...simulate) the common touch can count on being boosted by the down-market tabloids. That too is Church all over--her mother manages a public housing project in Cardiff--and it helps explain why the TV "chat shows" took up the young singer and gave her a start, thereby bringing her to the attention of Sony execs...
...title flower triggers a savage turn of events when the poet Ingrid Magnussen poisons her lover, consigning herself to a jail life and her 12-year-old daughter to Los Angeles' foster-care system. Young Astrid gets off to a shaky start at the home of a born-again Christian who shoots her in a fit of righteous jealousy. She survives that, though, as well as prison notes from her mother, which include sentiments like this: "Sometimes I wish you were dead, so I would know you were safe." Fitch tends to get lost in the lyricism of her prose...