Word: behemoth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...colors and square block fonts, the kiosk is a beacon to Harvard Square's newest arena of consumption, "The Shops at Harvard Yard." And while to most it may seem faintly amusing, worthy only of only a regretful shake of the head on the way to the Yard, this behemoth begs our attention...
Heckendorn, a native of Valencia, Spain, lost the CEO race last spring during a management shakeup at National Medical, a troubled behemoth that faces $750 million in lawsuits for allegedly overbilling insurance companies. While Heckendorn claims to have been the handpicked successor of Richard Eamer, a co-founder of the firm who stepped aside in the shuffle, the top job went instead to Jeffrey Barbakow, a National Medical director and former executive of the securities firm Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. According to Heckendorn's suit, influential board members rebelled at the thought of a female CEO and called the idea crazy...
...Department has yet to give the two companies the go-ahead, the FCC has in the past looked favorably at such transactions. If the agency does not approve, it can expect to be swiftly inundated with demands from the rest of the industry to be saved from the competitive behemoth that technology has spawned...
...Captured Your Dollars, and Enslaved Your Children is that rarest of books: it actually explores everything after that obligatory colon in the title. The book, which is almost never dull, tracks the growth of Nintendo from a Japanese playing-card company founded in 1889 to an international video-game behemoth that by 1992 consistently earned after-tax profits of more than $500 million a year. That's more than all U.S. movie studios combined and more than IBM, Apple or Microsoft...
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