They seem entirely unobsessed with starting dot-coms, tracking the Nasdaq or buying new Saabs.
When they talk about Russia, though, they start dotting their conversation with words like "catastrophe".
Set up Webcams to watch their offices around the clock and tell them to start dot-com companies.
Necessity soon bred invention, though, and the first bootleg stills started dotting the secluded valley in the 1940's and 50's, brewing up a traditional liquor called cachaca (ka-SHA-sa).
At the peak of the Internet boom, dozens of M.B.A. students who took his course in electronic commerce went on to start dot-com businesses, and some became stars.
Offshore wind turbines (OWTs) have started dotting the waters in northern Europe and Asia, and new projects are scheduled to come online in the upcoming years along the U.S. coast lines.
Visions of layettes and heirloom names start dotting conversations.
Locate the Tech Deck logo on the grip tape and start dotting away at it with the permanent marker.
"The biggest change is students who started college four or five years ago, when everything seemed to be wonderful and people were starting at dot-coms with incredible salaries, $60,000, $70,000, sometimes with signing bonuses" she said.
Still, the low costs of starting a dot-com business may appeal to recession-wary entrepreneurs especially since Internet users often grow tired of their social- networking sites after a few years.
