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Micky Arison thinks so. Arison is CEO of Carnival Corp., the cruise-industry behemoth that bought the venerable but floundering Cunard Line, which operates the QM2. "The concept of the Queen Mary was the reason for the acquisition," Arison says. Plans to build the big liner were announced within months of Carnival's 1998 takeover of Cunard, and Arison believes he can make $120 million from the QM2 "in a good year...
...Stonyfield Farm, whose no-synthetic-hormone labels also carry language noting the FDA's approval of RBST. But Stanley Bennett, whose family built Oakhurst from a two-horse outfit in 1921 into an $85 million modern processor, says he won't be "bullied" by the $4.7 billion biotech behemoth. "We are in the business of marketing milk," he says, "not Monsanto's drugs...
ExxonMobil's reigning chief, Lee Raymond, 65, has extended his stay on the job ostensibly to handle fallout from the 1999 merger that created the $230 billion behemoth. But in recent months the Irving, Texas, company has been giving Tillerson and fellow senior V.P. Ed Galante, the man responsible for refining and marketing, more face time with Wall Street. Oppenheimer & Co. analyst Fadel Gheit suggests Tillerson may prevail: "The company's future is predicated on success in oil and gas exploration and production...
...hard smokers will want to stock up on nicotine patches before they board-everyone else, however, will be delighted. It comes into service on Dec. 1, making its maiden voyage from Dubai to Sydney under the Emirates airline livery. The flight time will be 14 hours, but this tireless behemoth can handle journeys of 17 hours or more, and Emirates has additional plans to deploy its fleet of eight A340-500s on trips to North America and New Zealand...
...media companies that are increasingly bumping up against the BBC in the marketplace, the question is, Can a publicly funded media behemoth compete fairly? And even if it can, should it? By tradition, the Beeb is supposed to produce programs in the "public interest," although exactly what that means has never been unequivocally defined. At the same time, it tries to be popular in order to justify the license fee. It's a difficult juggling act, and competitors complain that it is using public money to duplicate the cooking, gardening and home-makeover shows that other broadcasters...