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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"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.
The year 2000 may have seen the dot-com bubble reach the limits of its inflation, but at that point the Internet marketing industry was really only getting started.
More recently, technology joined the party, with a high of 89 Forbes list entries in the dot-com boom year of 2000, then 42 in 2005 and 40 in 2010.
Many of the companies that will go public in the year to come are far more substantial than the dot-coms that rose to fame in a flash and disappeared in a poof.
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Industry laggard Atlantic Southeast mishandled 17 bags for every 1, 000 passengers it carried last year, according to the DOT report.
Australia's Robbie McEwen won the green jersey given to the best sprinter for a third time, and Denmark's Mickael Rasmussen earned the polka-dot jersey awarded to the best climber for a second year.
This has continued unabated during the boom dot-com years, year 2000 non-problem, through the 2001 -2003 technology recession and finally through the recent boom and bust.
The 70-year-old Mr. Madoff wasn't some dot-com upstart but a pillar of the community and philanthropist.
The year's top business story is how powerful big guys have joined the zany "dot.com" startups on the great search for sustainable profit in the Web era.
But it's time to discard the stereotype of a 17-year-old trading dot-coms via a home PC.
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.
Last year Congress created a four-member committee to advise the DOT on what passenger protections were needed.
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By continuing the national program developed for model year 2012-2016 vehicles, EPA and DOT have designed a proposal that allows manufacturers to keep producing a single, national fleet of passenger cars and light trucks that satisfies all federal and California requirements, while ensuring that consumers enjoy a full range of vehicle choices.
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Nelson said DOT started using a Geographic Information System program developed by the conservancy's Adirondack researchers last year.
In an interview on his last day in office as Hong Kong's securities regulator this year, Martin Wheatley warned about the craze for shares of Chinese companies, calling China "the new dot-com" of the investment world.
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