Word: techs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Schaefer, 32, multimillionaires. But what is striking about walking into the Blizzard North building in Menlo Park, Calif., is not the casualness of the offices, the cubicles strewn with toys or the 8-ft. red-and-black Diablo mannequin next to the receptionist--that's standard work-is-play, tech-firm vibe. Instead, what makes me stop and wonder is the feeling that I am revisiting my childhood...
...will it take a big shift to affect television's business model. Ads are sold based on demographics. Suppose only relatively well-off, younger, tech-savvy viewers--the kind advertisers crave--adapt to PVRs. Bernoff posits that if X-Files fans bypass all those pricey tech ads, such highly acclaimed, high-budget programs could migrate to pay cable, replaced by more America's Favorite Self-Immolations--cheap programming aimed at downscale audiences...
...exercise" to describe Blair Witch; it gives it that whole unpolished film-school-final-project kind of feel). The most important lesson of Blair Witch, of course, is not that hundreds of millions can be made by making unnecessary noises in the woods and filming them with a low-tech camera, but rather that audiences are looking for a genuine scare. (And no, The Haunting didn't quite deliver the goods.) But true horror comes from a blend of realistic awareness and the fantastic. And Blair Witch was so bogged down in the nuts and bolts of being realistic that...
...much) and a sliding dollar (against not only the yen but also the euro) have both rekindled fears that the Fed will hike rates at its board meeting October 5. The uppercut? Microsoft prez Steve Ballmer?s must-have-had-a-few-too-many comments to a roomful of tech reporters about how tech stocks - even his - are way overvalued. Investors fell all over themselves to drop the Nasdaq 108 points, with the Dow in hot pursuit. With the sell-off still chugging along on Friday, are we in for a cruel, cruel Indian summer...
...chef Emeril Lagasse would say, "Bam!" Eliot and Kirkland residents returning this fall found dining hall service areas straight off a Food Network set, supported by kitchens run like a high-tech assembly line...