The first wave was from 1998 to 2001, when such companies as Junglee, C2B, Liquid Market, Cadabra and MySimon sold out.

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Wasserstein was personally recruited by David-Weill to help rescue Lazard, which by late 2001 had suffered a wave of high-profile defections and was laboring under the moribund deal market.

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The first wave of selling culminated on September 21, 2001, when 762 stocks made new lows.

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Dr Taylor, you'll remember, was elected as independent MP for Wyre Forest in 2001 and again in 2005 on a tidal wave of public outrage over the downgrading of Kidderminster General Hospital.

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Saab cottoned on to this just in time, if not even slightly too late, to ride the wave when it launched its first executive diesel 9-5 in 2001, four years after introducing a smaller 9-3 diesel.

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In 2001, there were 18 million boomer grandparents, according to Age Wave Impact.

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The portal's acquisition of the photo-sharing site Flickr was hailed by some as a sign that it could freshen up its business model by tapping into the wave of Web-friendly start-ups that emerged in the wake of the 2001 tech bust.

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