Word: stocking
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...souvenir shops and food court, one might reasonably hope to wait for a plane in peace. Yet in most airports, the buzz and whir continues right to the gates, with CNN's Airport Network the prime culprit. Sure, they feed our news addiction and send along the stream of stock prices (the symbols themselves some quixotic mix of advertising and investment), but they don't stop there: One "news" piece, more likely a subtle advertisement for a product or resort, is followed by the CNN logo and theme music, to keep the company and the product in the forefront...
...Unfortunately for him, the only ribbon that Walgreens had in stock was black. As his father drove him to deliver the present, Dennis thought it would be funny to make a small addition to the gift. He explains, "completely on a whim, as I was wrapping this box up and recounting this glorious triumph in the eighth grade science fair, I scrawled on a post it note 'this is a bomb, hiss.'" In this moment of inspiration, Dennis forgot something very important: "I forgot to put a return address...
...remember that Cleaves is still a questionable first round draft pick at best because Cleaves is a 40 percent career shooter. Would Cleaves have stayed if he'd been a guaranteed lottery pick? He stayed partly to win a championship, and partly to improve his draft stock...
...There's a lot a stake apart from pride. Celera and its investors are looking to make a mint from the project(and were rewarded Thursday with a 25 percent jump in the company's stock price); the public scientists, meanwhile, are anxious to preserve their funding. And that might explain in part why the members of the Human Genome Project, which is funded by National Institutes of Health, are warning that exuberance over the most recent announcement may be misplaced. The federal scientists have long taken issue with Celera's techniques, saying that the public project is taking...
...tech-stock watchers are concerned, Wednesday's joint wireless venture between Bell South and SBC couldn't have been timed better. Right when the death knell was sounding on the dot-com craze, wireless technology has emerged as "the new new thing," with new players popping up left and right and a host of IPOs on the horizon. Tech analysts say there are two trends driving the boom: Cell phones have finally come way down in price, making them widely available to the masses, and they will soon become much more versatile, offering a host of digital services...