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...religious organization, the group is prohibited from directly endorsing candidates, or having official ties to a political party, a line that Reed has closely skirted in the past. TIME's Laurence Barrett notes that Reed, who built up Pat Robertson's moribund operation into a 1.6 million-member behemoth by 1995, is a shrewd political operative who should be very successful running campaigns. "Reed is considered a very skilled, talented person in the field of political strategy and tactics," Barrett says. "He knows how the machine works, and he knows how to work it." Likely clients include candidates in high...
...Jacksonville Jaguars: David LaFleur, TE, LSU. Pretty much everyone acknowledges that current TE Derek Brown stinks. Maybe even his mother. So they will get this 6'7", 280 behemoth who has occasional back problems...
Still, the Web's radical efficiencies present Amazon with a classic start-up's dilemma: if the service offered is so easy that a couple of hundred computer jocks can pull it off, it should be equally easy for a billion-dollar behemoth to shoulder you off the road--so better stay ahead every mile of the race...
...gate workers, ticket agents and mechanics, will be laid off as USAirways continues a cost-cutting reorganization of its hub system by routing more flights through Philadelphia. The moves are an attempt to continue the remaking of US Airways into the giant it once was and not the bloated behemoth that did not have a profitable year between 1988 and 1995. Since Stephen M. Wolf was elected chairman in early 1996, however, USAirways has been on something of a warpath. One of Wolf's first moves was to order up to 400 new Airbus jets, one of the largest orders...
...Novell has a big geek of its own. Sun Microsystems' house genius, Eric Schmidt, 41, is going to head up the struggling company. Schmidt is credited with helping build Sun (1996 sales: $7 billion) into a hardware behemoth. Soft-spoken and given to windy though usually hysterical jokes, he has a long trail of success: millions in the bank, oodles of patents, the respect of the industry. Why jump to Novell? Friends say there's only one other thing he wants: Bill Gates' scalp...