"You basically follow a dot with the mouse, your brain does a lot of work, and you get a final score, " said Jim Miller, USA Cycling's vice president of athletics.

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Consequently, someone like Prosper Utseya can get away with an ODI bowling average of 47.30 because he bowls a lot of dot balls, conceding just 4.30 runs an over, but he's not much of a threat in Tests.

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The future of the dot.com leaders is becoming a lot clearer.

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We learned a lot from the dot-com bust.

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McKinsey takes over in the following year, and we also start to see a lot of people staying in school after graduation (anyone remember the dot-com bust?).

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The dot-com bubble in the nineties has everyone justifiably nervous whenever an online IPO gets a lot of buzz.

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