But DOT claims it has already used this flexibility and still can't avoid cuts to air-traffic control.
"If it can get onto an over-the-road truck that's DOT legal, it can come into the building, " Mr. Wise said.
It objected to the creation and expansion of the three transatlantic cartels, only to be ignored by the DoT, which it cannot overrule on such matters.
Then, it dot-commed itself, and Time Engineering's shares skyrocketed.
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Well, it looks like, from the tracker, that -- I see a little dot flashing, and it looks like Santa is just flying over Estonia.
MatchON Sports it was one of the biggest dot com companies in Finland and it went straight ( into) the wall and went bankrupt.
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Jersey City will take another step toward transforming the contaminated sites that dot its waterfront when it breaks ground Wednesday on a nearly 800, 000-square-foot warehouse.
The large 3.2-inch 921K dot LCD screen makes it easy to preview images or video captured, navigate the menu system or confirm critical HD focus, while automatic brightness control adapts seamlessly to changing lighting conditions.
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"You can show people the dot and tell them it's a planet, but when you can show them that you can actually see weather systems on that planet, then you've shown people you can do astronomy in New York City, " O'Gara told SPACE.com.
Now, to be fair, it was put together by a group with dot-org in its name, and it did a pretty impressive job of getting high-profile press for an arcane piece of oil-industry infrastructure.
During the dot-com bust, it underwent an extreme restructuring to avoid an implosion.
Online markets did make a go of it during the Dot Com boom, but failed for a variety of reasons.
In many cases, he makes a home in the motels and hotels that dot highways and has made it a personal challenge to find good Chinese food wherever he goes.
Early in my career as an author, speaker and dot-com entrepreneur, it became super clear to me that social media was the most powerful way to carry my message to the masses.
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As an entrepreneur in the Internet sector I still remember the dot-com bubble like it was yesterday, when share prices fell over their own cliff and many businesses, big and small, fell apart.
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Mr. Smith and his eight partners started their business in 2000 for the sole purpose of having it become a dot-shop registry holder that could sell dot-shop Web addresses, such as jeans.shop and coats.shop.
Like many other bright ideas that emerged during the dot.com boom, it has taken more money and time to implement than originally expected, but it remains a cheaper option than trying to maintain and upgrade existing, balkanized communications networks.
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The company in some ways typified the excesses of the dot-com era: It went so far as to advertise with stickers on apples and bananas, sent Jeeves-type butlers to busy public places at lunch and leased tens of thousands of square feet of office space, expecting no end to its growth.
It also means that some of the many sick dot-coms still have a chance of survival--though it wouldn't hurt to have a warehouse full of Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people) PlayStation 2s.
Y. maker of personal care products, decided against opening a Web store and approached dot.com retailers to take it on-line.
The sole exception is the tech-heavy Nasdaq, which remains far below the peaks it scaled in the dot-com bubble.
AOL, if it proves that a dot-com can buy a brick-and-mortar company and not suffer a share wipeout, might be the catalyst.
This senior official said that the Bush administration wanted to "cross t's and dot i's" before it authenticates or dismisses the latest e-mail.
Optimism clearly knows no international boundaries either because it is not just dot.com domains that people were looking to make a fortune with.
The band can slowly shrink, moving as though it is slipping from the surface, until it becomes just a dot on the apple's skin.
"It was the most dot-com-bubble name I could think of, and I didn't want people to know what we were going to do, " he says.
Kozmo is a cool idea, and may have even looked like a good company back when everyone was riding the dot-com high, but it just doesn't hold up in the real world.
Indeed, she took considerable heat for her unwavering faith in some of her less successful picks even in the darkest days of the dot-com bust--it took a 97% slide in Priceline shares before she backed off a buy recommendation on the stock, for instance.
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