Word: techs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then, this tiny company is a living celebration of American diversity--and immigration, an increasingly unfashionable cause back in Washington. But in another way, all these folks share a culture to which most Americans, and nearly everyone in D.C., are strangers. Islands of this high-tech entrepreneurial culture dapple the country. But they reach critical mass in and around San Francisco...
Foreign tongues on the net? Nyet. English rules. No wonder French linguistic gendarmes tried to put an halte! on Georgia Tech's English-only Website concerning its campus in Lorraine. So just how prevalent is English in cyberspace...
...does, however, produce stock market rockets. Networking stocks have helped push the tech-laden nasdaq exchange to new highs, and Cisco Systems--a networker whose stock has risen more than 12,000% in the past seven years--is the Apollo of the group. Fund managers trip over themselves to predict how high Cisco stock, which closed last week at $67, will be come Thanksgiving (consensus: $85). In the past six weeks the stock is up 50%. Analysts flock to industry conventions to predict a glowing future...
...member of Brenda Laurel's favorite demographic group. Laurel, a veteran of computer-game wars going back to Atari, has lately taken on the mystery of why there isn't better software for girls. The result, backed by the deep pockets of Interval Research, the high-tech think tank of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is a start-up called Purple Moon, whose debut CD-ROMs will be unveiled in two weeks at the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo in Atlanta...
...more direction to the JONBENET RAMSEY murder probe, the Boulder, Colo., district attorney, ALEX HUNTER, has quietly merged his agents with the Boulder police and moved them into a "war room" of three offices in Boulder's Justice Center, equipping it with shredders, secure phones, computers and a high-tech alarm system that guards against eavesdropping microphones. A nine-member team of detectives and assistant prosecutors will work out of the suite, which has a private entrance. The union between these sometimes antagonistic agencies was instigated by Hunter as a go-for-broke effort to bring greater focus...