Word: dashes
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...hypersmart and sassy voice that does for Silicon Valley and Alley what CNBC did for Wall Street. Knowing what you're talking about counts for a lot in a world of shrieking dotcom hype, and the Standard cut through the noise with speed, exuberance, minimal jargon and a dash of self-deprecating humor. Advertisers ate it up, and the Standard got very fat very quickly. Issue No. 1 had an anemic 25 pages of ads; now they frequently top 200. Ad revenues rose from less than $2 million in '98 to more than $26 million in '99. "Our plan...
...customer loyalty, in exchange for personal information or as a reward to surfers for just showing up. Hence the name--"You get something just for having 'been' there," explains Beenz.com chairman and CEO Philip Letts. Among the sites that offer this virtual token of their esteem are Excite UK, Dash, FortuneCity and the Motley Fool. Then, once your virtual wallet is bulging, you can spend beenz at any of some 200 e-commerce sites that accept beenz as a form of payment, including Flooz, ishop, Jellybeenz Gifts and MP3.com There are no downloads or credit-card transactions, and Beenz.com keeps...
...most complex irregular forms. When the billowing Sydney Opera House was under construction four decades ago, it went millions of dollars over budget because of the difficulties in translating Joern Utzon's arching sail forms into a structure that would actually stand up. These days you could practically dash the thing off on your Palm Pilot. Adventurous architects are working with the same software used by aircraft engineers and special-effects designers, who also think about things like how curved and folding surfaces respond to real pressures. For their radically fashioned New York Presbyterian Church in Sunnyside, the Los Angeles...
...undefeated women's team kept pushing towards another first-place finish. Leading the way was Taylor with resounding victories in the 60-meter hurdles (8.44 seconds), the 60-meter dash (7.69 seconds), and the 200-meter dash (24.22 seconds...
Junior Marna Schutte placed second in the 200-meter dash, giving the Crimson a one-two finish in the event with a time of 25.14 seconds. Schutte also won first place in the 400-meter dash with a time of 55.16 seconds, Crimson sweep of the top places along with sophomore Carrie McGraw (57.16) and freshmen Kendra Barron (58.05) and Amanda Shanklin...