Word: massed
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...always been a highly volatile industry, but recent events have been on the scale of a virtual earthquake. Here's a sample of the casualty list for just two days last week: More than a third of Seattle-based Hardware.com's workers went under the hammer. Furniture.com in Framingham, Mass., laid off 80 employees--that's 41% of its work force. Streaming video site Pseudo.com axed 58 jobs in New York City. Planned IPOs were canned by firms including Furniture.com electronics site 800.com in Portland, Ore., and video-delivery site Kozmo.com in New York City. BBQ.com a fully funded...
...push sites into an early grave by forcing them to become too big, too fast. "I've been burned by the culture of stupid growth that VCs have fostered," she says. "Some businesses ought to grow organically. You can't just add water and expect to compete in the mass market...
...here we speak of the storm, because it may be the most ambitious cinematic undertaking since Sylvester Stallone tried comedy. For most of the movie, it conspires to destroy the Andrea Gail, a 72-ft. swordfishing vessel that sailed from Gloucester, Mass., on Sept. 20, 1991, into a meteorological hell. After looming ominously in the distance for a while, the storm moves in for the kill, drowning a rescue worker, swallowing a helicopter, attacking a freighter and upstaging George Clooney, who stars as the Andrea Gail's captain, Billy Tyne. Let it be said right up front that Clooney...
Besides the Mass. Ave. scenes, portions of the movie take place at the Weeks Memorial Footbridge over the Charles River near Leverett House...
...next six months Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 and his staff will work out of the Engineering Sciences Lab on Oxford Street, while Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles and the rest of University Hall staff have relocated to 1033 Mass. Ave., half way between the Yard and Central Square...