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Article: The world is watching America. How much is enough?(The Dallas Morning News)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- September 27, 2000
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SEATTLE _ Thanks to the Microsoft example of paying in stock options, there are now thousands of people here with more money than they know what to do with. There are an estimated 40,000 recent millionaires in this region. Most of them are not old enough for an AARP card.
They are part of a laid-back techie culture where the dress code usually means fleece vest and Gore-Tex. Everyone is so environmentally conscious that the joke is when fans throw garbage at the baseball team, the team calls a time-out to separate it into piles for recycling. The ultimate putdown in this cyber-culture is to say someone is "low bandwidth."
The world is watching the ...