Noughties

MetLife Europe recently dubbed the Noughties a 'lost decade' for investors in which they, for example, have seen annualized returns of just 0.5% a year from direct investment in the FTSE 100, the UK's index of leading shares.

Investing in the Fear Factor 2010

The study found that women in the so-called Noughties between 2000 and 2009 had an average of 5.65 different sexual partners by the time they were 24.

Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2010

The Noughties was the decade in which women, for the first time, could say I'm Fifty And Fabulous or Sixty And Sensational and it was a genuine feeling, rather than just empty words.

Home | Mail Online 2010

In summary then - the Noughties were the era that Metcalfe's Law took hold, and the network economics thereof drove a higher level of integration and "plug and play" evolution.

broadstuff 2009

But the Noughties has been a standout period - mostly for the acceptance of video gaming as a mainstream activity.

The Guardian World News 2009

The Noughties has been a good decade for the video games industry - it's never been so mainstream.

Pocket-lint.com 2009

The Noughties has been the decade of the amateur property developer - cheap money enabled everyone from the housewife to the teacher to do up a house.

Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009

The Noughties was a period of such conspicuous consumption that it dwarfed the 1980s.

BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2009

Good or bad, it meant that the Noughties is the decade where working from the beach became a reality.

Pocket-lint.com 2009

So, while Maddy tells us that 'I don't know what I'm looking for ... but I'm not going to find is stuck in an office ...' and Laurel says that after five years of marriage 'this is not the point,' of life, what we see is a 'Noughties' version of The Ice Storm with nicer surroundings.

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