Most media companies have registered sharp advertising declines from the peaks of 2000, when scores of dot-coms bought image advertising, and employers bought loads of high-margin help-wanted advertising.
Pets.com, an online pet supply retailer based in San Francisco and best known for its advertising campaign starring a sarcastic sock-puppet dog, was among scores of dot-coms that closed in 2000.
Madison Avenue is aggressively peddling scores of dot-coms that sell gift merchandise, flowers, candy, apparel, greeting cards, jewelry and gift certificates in campaigns that mimic the longtime efforts in the offline world to exploit Cupid by attaching dollar signs to his arrows.
From the air, the tiny circle of Guernsey sparkles from scores of greenhouses dotted in a quilt of small fields.
But it is very popular in Europe, where scores of gliders dot the sky in alpine valleys.
The new Mexico, where millions of young college graduates are modernizing an economy already bubbling with scores of new dot-com startups, backs Mr. Fox.
Today, there are scores of imitators dotted around the city, but both the quality and inventiveness of Giannini's work sets him apart - hand-sewn leather diaries or sketchbooks, marbled paper books to write down recipes, address and birthday books, even items as simple as a stylish bookmark.
My highest score on Dots — the original Dots — is 414.
Now if you will excuse me, I have to go and try to beat my high score of 474 dots.
The settlement — like scores of others that dot this harsh landscape — is populated by members of the Bishnoi, a community that traditionally reveres and protects nature.
