The 70-year-old Mr. Madoff wasn't some dot-com upstart but a pillar of the community and philanthropist.
Unfortunately what they didn't do was dot the "i's" and cross the "t's" when creating and using the Department for Transport's complicated economic model for assessing franchise bids - which meant that in a judicial review of the Department's decision to go with First Group, launched by Virgin, the current holder of the franchise, the government was bound to lose.
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.
At the same time, I would say the folks that went down, I know that they were certainly trying to live above board, to cross the T's, to dot the I's, to do everything that they were told to do.
Last year, disability-issue complaints filed by air travelers with the Department of Transportation jumped a hefty 18.3% (DOT doesn't break out wheelchair issues).
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Zamani couldn't stay away, even as so many dot-coms turned to dust.
In its other pro-business ruling this week, the court decided on Monday that Credit Suisse and other investment banks weren't guilty of setting stock prices during the dot-com bubble, as some investors had alleged.
In its other pro-business ruling this week, the court decided on Monday that Credit Suisse (nyse: CS - news - people ) and other investment banks weren't guilty of setting stock prices during the dot-com bubble, as some investors had alleged.
The recent dot-com crash wasn't the end of the Internet, even as a business opportunity.
Undocumented immigrant is not only not pejorative, it implies a moral judgement an implicit tut-tut for misplacing some papers of failing to dot ever i and cross every t.
"What we do is a reasonable measure to know the identity of each customer, " says John Ricci, general counsel for Green Dot, which apparently didn't get wise to Wamsley-Saxon (someone tipped off the cops) but cooperated with the investigation.
But to dot all the I's and cross all the T's, it will take a few more years.
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.
"We were right to do so, even if in the circumstances it was not possible to dot all the "i"s and cross the "t"s along the way, " he said.
But DOT claims it has already used this flexibility and still can't avoid cuts to air-traffic control.
Chambers told CNN she didn't know anything about that meeting but said the group is supposed to meet with the DOT at some point.
That category is for bridges that may have narrow lanes or shoulders, or spans that don't provide enough vertical clearance to let tall trucks pass, according to Washington's DOT.
Then-Chairman Greenspan's "irrational exuberance" speech was in December 1996, with the bulk of the dot-com bubble to follow, but the Fed didn't even hike reserve requirements to send a warning shot across Wall Street's bow.
Interestingly, when we asked a DoT staffer for clarification, he reminded us that the agency hasn't issued a press release and said he wasn't sure where Wired and other outlets were getting their information.
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"Clearly when you back out the barter transactions, as well as the three-year dot-com ad contracts that are now expiring, advertising wasn't a viable business model, " says Henry Asher, president of Northstar Group, a New York-based investment manager that holds the parent company's shares.
Beyond that, it doesn't appear to pack any video functionality and features a much smaller 2.5-inch 230k-dot display.
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"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.
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.
The big economic and emotional crashes I predicted would arise from the punctured boom just haven't appeared VCs are sitting on the biggest funds they've ever had--and for every dot-com they let die by withholding money, two new firms get investments.
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