Word: virtually
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...known as Blank Monday in the surfing world, the $4.5 billion industry's core snapped like a board caught in the Banzai Pipeline. Reason? The closure of Gordon (Grubby) Clark's four-decade virtual monopoly on polyurethane blanks, the raw material for most surfboards. (Shapers then customize them for surfers.) Clark's Laguna Niguel, Calif., company produced 80% of blanks worldwide, and his sudden exit (encircled by rumors of pressure by environmental regulators) left surfers treading water as board prices doubled and deliveries were cut off. One man's wipeout, though, could be another's dream wave. Harold Walker...
...move up and down based on demand, and players earn dividends based on their statistics. For instance, shares in Shaun Alexander, left, rose steadily this season, as he helped the Seattle Seahawks reach the Super Bowl. The market is still in its infancy, but it's already rewarding smart "virtual" investments with cash prizes...
...electronic signatures would remedy this problem. Rather than requiring professors and advisers to physically sign paper copies of students’ electronic study cards, the Office of the Registrar could instead allow professors to electronically approve students’ enrollment requests, and could enable advisors to approve of a virtual study card with the click of a mouse, not the scrawl of a pen. Improvements to shopping period should not come from the Registrar alone; professors should post full syllabi on their course web sites well before the first class meeting—in place of the partial or nonexistent...
...There are always some weird encoded messages buried in a State of the Union address, the warning aimed at some particular enemy or committee chairman, the pat on the back for a friend. The commentariat runs a virtual spreadsheet, parsing applause lines, assessing the meaning of devoting 30 seconds of a 55-minute speech to the fate of New Orleans...
...your cable provider leaves you panting for even more reruns, take a look at AOL's new online-TV network, In2TV. Starting in February, it will offer some 4,800 episodes of 100 old TV series--3,400 hours of programming in all, delivered over six virtual channels. Each 30-minute episode will include one to two minutes of advertising...