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...irritated throughout. He shrugged off charges of monopoly by declaring: "The products that Microsoft makes have a very short life span." He also tried his best to sound worried about the threat from Sun Microsystems, but Sun CEO Scott McNealy got far more sympathy for taking on the Redmond behemoth: "Would you go up against the most dangerous and powerful industrialist of our age?" he asked. The markets certainly wouldn't -- Microsoft stock was up three-eighths at the hearing's close...
...Tuesday before Thanksgiving, I took the train into New York to tape the show. As I walked into the studio receptionist's office at the Hotel Pennsylvania, a burly behemoth of a security guard sitting in the back of the room noticed me. "Name," he grunted...
...ANGELES: The behemoth just keeps on chugging. "Titanic" is now the highest-grossing movie in the world, ever -- and there?s no sign of icebergs as it steams into the record books. Global ticket sales have reached a colossal $918 million, soaring past the puny $914 grossed by "Jurassic Park." Evidently, Spielberg?s dinosaur flick simply did not kill off enough of its extras...
...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...