Floyd Norris Blog: Eight Years, and Back to the Start
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If you fled Wall Street eight years ago â remember Y2K? â and came back today, you might conclude that nothing much happened while you were gone. The Standard & Poor's index of 500 stocks ended the last decade at 1469.25. Now, points out Howard Silverblatt of S.&P., it is at 1468.36. A decline [...].
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2008 is off to a fine start for the world of Linux sound and music software, so this week's story is straight reporting from Studio Dave, with breaking news from various points on the Linux audio compass.  read more
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Former British Open champion Ian  Baker-Finch is contemplating a return to competitive golf after  eight years away from the game.
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BusinessWeek Online - Seventy-five years is a mere blink of history's eye. Yet since 1929, when BusinessWeek was first published, the world has been transformed by profound innovation and technological wizardry. Three-quarters of a century ago, there were no safe and effective antibiotics, no jet travel, no commercial television, and no computers. Many died of routine infections. A five-day ocean voyage was the main way to get from America to Europe, and "wireless" meant the wood-paneled Radiola in the parlor. Since then our mastery of the physical and biological world has strengthened remarkably. ...
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For years many spent freely. Now comes the big payback.
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My rÃÂ¿sumÃÂ¿ is pretty short when it comes to endurance events. There was that 23- hour nonstop drive from New Hampshire to South Carolina back in 1987, and I vaguely remember a St. Patrick's Day drinking contest at the University of Maryland that lasted quite a while (thanks, Norman).
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Sometimes it helps to go back to the  beginning and start simple -- to relearn why you've invested in  mutual funds and how to make the most of them.
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The company's original visionary returns to the helm.
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Eight months ago, Missouri seemed well on its way to becoming a national leader in stem cell research.
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Everything has changed, starting with that most basic of concepts: nationality. Sixty years ago, the town of Sagan was located deep in Germany.
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Burnett Adams figured it was time to get on with his life. The former Boston College basketball player had always regretted not completing his degree when he left BC in 1983. He decided to go back to school 10 months ago.
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Crouching tiger slagging blogger Column Here's a quote from an interesting time in the past: ten years ago. You know, a decade back, 1997, when (It says here) 'Jorn Barger, who started his Robot Wisdom weblog in 1997, is "regarded by many" as the "first blogger".'â¦
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Another year, another opportunity to reflect and look forward.
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It's been six years, but by one key measure, the marketing communications industry has worked its way back to where it was at the height of the Great Internet Bubble. This would mark a full recovery, and any business growth from here forward would take the industry into new record territory.
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Learning from past mistakes and looking to future opportunities.
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It was nine years ago this month that I arrived in Washington to join XM, fresh off a 16-hour drive from Dallas and inspired by the incredible lack of imagination on the plethora of radio stations I listened to on the ride.
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It&#39;s been eight years since a US boxer stood on an Olympic .podium to receive a gold medal. It&#39;s been six years since Andre Ward lost a fight.