Word: tech
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...office: "We've had an explosion aboard the Cole. We think it might be a terrorist act." Pickard quickly dialed FBI Director Louis Freeh, Attorney General Janet Reno and Dale Watson, head of the FBI's Counter-Terrorism Division, bringing them online and then activating the FBI's high-tech Strategic Operations and Information Center. Then he called Roger Nisley, chief of the Critical Incident Response Group, and delivered a go message: "Get the Rapid Deployment team rolling toward Andrews [Air Force Base]," he ordered. Nisley, an experienced counterterror tactical agent, knew what to do. After the bombings...
...high-tech group, well funded and selectively high profile, especially on Capitol Hill. But as America's law-enforcement and intel network struggles to adapt, the terrorists too are changing, becoming more diffuse and better armed. As the U.S. has brought more pressure to bear on nations that sponsor terrorism, terrorists have become more elusive, avoiding alignments with any single mentor. These traits apply not only to the fanatical anti-Western cells associated with Osama bin Laden (pictured), which have emerged as possible suspects in the Cole bombing, but also to groups opposed to Middle East peace like Hizballah...
...race is decided in the I-4 corridor between Orlando and Tampa Bay, where people are less inclined toward blind faith in their own party. It's an area full of transplanted boomers from the North and young families drawn to relatively affordable housing and good jobs in high-tech fields, health care and financial services...
...this NASDAQ tech talk about bottoms, sectors and valuation bubbles hasn't meant much to Dow investors lately, who have tended to save their big reactions for top-of-the-fold items that, say, a Fed chairman might worry about...
...Thursday's selling didn't have the resolute quality of the day before - it was a halting affair all morning and seemed to be sputtering by lunch. The 3200 (OK, 3100-ish) mark is still a tech milestone investors take quite seriously, probably more so if it holds up this week. Chipmakers, PC makers, software makers, portals - they've all gotten a comeuppance in the last month or so, and this week it looks like fiber optics/networking, the "infrastructure" companies of the Internet, is getting its fair share...