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This Wednesday, in its four-part investigation of Harvard University's split identity as both an institution of higher learning and a money-sucking behemoth, The Boston Globe will attempt to answer the question: "Is it worth it?" I hope the Globe, if only to spare our collective sanity, won't be so cruel as to tell the members of my class, just 24 hours before our graduation, that no, indeed, it is not worth...
...Piggly Wiggly supermarket franchise, has developed a concept called Chef's Cupboard in 150 of its markets, offering food on a par with Boston Market. Fleming has also begun a new market prototype in Hartsfield, Ohio, called the IGA Supercenter. At the 62,000-sq.-ft. grocery behemoth, shoppers can drop off their kids at an on-site center and monitor them on TVs set up in the aisles; pick up traditional food or a hot entree, or take a lesson at IGA's cooking school; withdraw money at the store bank; pick up their dry cleaning; and send...
...banks have suffered more painful defections than Wells Fargo, a San Francisco behemoth that paid $11.6 billion for First Interstate in 1996. Wells Fargo laid off thousands of managers, tellers and computer experts and started charging for services that had been free, like giving account information over the telephone. A computer crash knocked out phone banking for days. For a time, frustrated customers bolted at the astonishing rate of 1.5% a month...
...from its humble origins among (mostly immigrant Jewish) nickelodeon proprietors into the most powerful industry for the invention and spread of dreams in human history, at least until the advent of TV. Walt Disney invented a little mouse, no larger than a man's thumb, that would become a behemoth...
...sheer amount of capital to which Tower has access allows the musical behemoth to provide an exhaustive inventory of every type of media known to man. Besides the standard collection of CD's (each with the standard price tag of $16), Tower supplements its offerings with everything from books to laserdiscs...