Word: behemoth
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...billion for Digital Equipment, a dented dynamo of a company based in Framingham, Mass., in a deal that will complete the transformation of Compaq into a global provider of everything from handheld computers to the monster machines that power corporate networks and the Internet. The buyout creates a behemoth with $37 billion in revenues that trails only the $78 billion IBM. "In the early '80s, if we had thought of one day displacing IBM in PCs and rivaling it in size overall, we would have made good candidates for the loony bin," says Compaq chairman Ben Rosen...
...longtime residents of the neighborhood face the prospects of this behemoth with dismay. The projected new building is completely out of size scale for the allotted space, an area bounded by Kirkland Street and Sumner Road...
Though we appreciate the Coop's efforts to renovate itself, we cannot support the sneaky invasion of a corporate behemoth, Barnes & Noble, under the guise of Coop ownership. One of the Square's greatest assets is its variety of small bookstores. We can't help but fear that the temptations of large volume discounts and cafe croissants will eventually lead to the demise of Harvard's more charming academic booksellers. Let's hope that instead students will continue to patronize theme bookstores in the Square, not a warehouse with shelves...
Three weeks ago, it seemed as if Janet Reno may actually have found a chink in Microsoft's armor. The attorney general filed suit against the software behemoth, claiming they were bullying computer manufacturers into accepting Internet Explorer as part of the Windows 95 bundle ? in violation of a 1996 court order. But now the empire ? through its legal minions ? has struck back...
China can't get no respect. The world's most populous country, the up-and-coming superpower, the economic behemoth--none of that cuts much ice in American minds preoccupied with Tiananmen Square, Tibet and Taiwan, not to mention the Communist Party. That's precisely why China's President Jiang Zemin is so eager to come here. He may have consolidated power internally, but he desperately wants to affirm his nation's legitimacy abroad. So Jiang's aim during his eight-day state visit, the first since China's bloody suppression of the democracy movement in 1989, is nothing less...