Word: yorks
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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This "cartoonist's-eye view," jokingly presented as a scientific inquiry, featured artwork by well-known cartoonists such as Chester Gould, the creator of Dick Tracy, and other artists from The New Yorker, The New York Times and Harper...
...Christine Gorman. Reported by Alice Park/New York...
...past six years, Dash's life has been all hustle--a constant struggle to make it in the New Economy. Last year he became the first African American to take a dotcom public. The mission of his DME Interactive Holdings Inc., based in New York City, is to help urban youth join the technology revolution by providing them with hardware at a cost they can afford--and make some money for himself and his investors in the process...
...million--on paper. Then last spring, when Wall Street soured on dotcoms, DME fell on hard times, and investors scurried away. Dash weathered the storm, but DME was forced to lay off more than half its staff. A plan to sell $249 PCs, with free Internet access in New York and New Jersey through a subsidiary, Placesofcolor.com went ahead. But DME's hopes of providing urban-oriented content had to be put on hold...
...nine years Johnson hawked the water gun to toymakers. It was going to cost $200,000 to produce 1,000 guns. Finally, at a toy fair in New York City, he was introduced to Al Davis, now the executive vice president at Larimi Corp. "I turned around, and there was the saddest guy I'd ever seen," remembers Davis. "He'd been trying to find somebody who was interested in it. He told me that if we turned him down, he was going to give...