First, the dot-com bubble burst, taking with it the inflated capital-spending plans of everybody who had been hoping to make a buck off of it.
Veterans from the first tech boom also dot the list.
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The new sets add features like NFC, MHL and Miracast support to certain models, while the top of the line W900A is its first to use Quantum Dot technology in combination with edge LED lighting.
In the last year, DOT announced the first federal rule to specifically provide ADA protections to people with disabilities who travel on boats and ships.
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The first step came with the dot-com crash.
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The average delay for a jetBlue flight that ran late was 65 minutes, according to DOT data for the first 10 months of the year.
American's on-time rate climbed to 75.7% from 68.6%, according to FlightStats, and the rate at which it mishandled checked luggage dropped by 25%, according to DOT data for the first 10 months of 2009, the most recent numbers available.
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But this northernmost German state came back into the news when Thilo Weichert, the state's privacy commissioner, raised an issue of such complexity that it will make the first Schleswig-Holstein question look like a dot-to-dot coloring book in comparison.
And the Swiss-based bank UBS Warburg was one of the first banks to take a publicly negative stance on dot.com stocks, recommending that investors sell-out from falling stocks, such as Freeserve, as early as June.
When the first day's doodle changed at midnight on the dot, she was captive in front of the computer to watch.
The rate at which airlines denied boarding to passengers rose 9% through the first nine months of 2009, the most recent reported by DOT.
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First of all, the administration had conveniently assumed that the dot.com boom would spawn massive demand for commercial launch services, and that the Pentagon could piggyback on that demand to meet its own needs at much-reduced costs.
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The movie was based on a successful series of books, the first of which came out in 2000, at the height of the dot-com boom.
After a dot ball to begin the final over bowled by Yuvraj Singh, his first six was actually caught on the mid-wicket boundary by Piyush Chawla, but the teenager then carried the ball over the rope.
Though some dot-com companies made a point of blowing their entire budget on the game during the first boom, most of today's marketers use the ads as a highlight to their campaigns, not the campaign itself.
Since its first national TV commercial appearance in October, Pets.com's spokespuppet has achieved a celebrity unrivaled in the dot-com branding free-for-all.
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