Word: behemoth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...made it through the first part of the test with minor problems and gathered my strength for the woolly behemoth of the parallel park, a technique Rudy had neglected to teach me until the day before. Slowly I pulled up to the car in front, slowly I turned The wheel and began backing up and slowly, ever so slowly, I backed the car into the curb, coming to a halt with a gentle, yet firm thud. My test was over...
...commercial banks, the Bank of Tokyo and Mitsubishi Bank, announced that they were discussing merger plans expected to lead to the creation of the world's biggest bank next year. Said a bank-stock analyst: "It's like marrying the two most beautiful people in the world." The new behemoth, with $823 billion in assets, would be 50% larger than the current biggest bank, Japan's Sumitomo, and would dwarf America's top-ranking Citicorp, with its mere $250 billion in assets...
...disaster, analysts contend, are the politics of cronyism, a web of incestuous relationships between business and government that formed after the inauguration of President Carlos Andres Perez in 1989. If during his first term as President, from 1974 to 1979, Perez had turned the economy into a state-dominated behemoth, he moved in the opposite direction during his second: toward privatization, deregulation and free- market economics...
...this be the same military behemoth that loomed over NATO for 40 years of cold war? As a matter of fact, no. This is the crippled army produced by the ) breakup of the Soviet Union and the near collapse of the Russian economy. The hardened troops of Ukraine and Belarus, with most of their equipment, are gone. The former Soviet Army's strength of almost 3 million men is now down to less than 1.5 million. The defense budget has been slashed, leaving units in the field with no money for fuel, fleets rusting in port, planes grounded without spare...
Intel had reason to be high-handed: 80% of personal computers used in the world have "Intel inside." But the company didn't count on being blindsided by another behemoth. Last week IBM, the world's largest computer maker and one of Intel's biggest customers, announced that it was halting shipments of all its products containing the Pentium (about half the personal computers it is at present sending out to stores). Brandishing its own laboratory research, IBM contended that the chip's mistakes were far more frequent than Intel had let on. Said G. Richard Thoman, an IBM senior...