Word: behemoths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...double entendre? CIA Director James Woolsey, called on the carpet today by the Senate Intelligence Committee about a mysterious $310 million spy complex, denied the project's cost and size were kept from Congress. At the hastily called public hearing, Woolsey said the committee has been told about the behemoth at least nine times since 1990. Among the contents of several hefty volumes of brief-ings he turned over: a May 29, 1992, paper listing costs of $309 million...
...software industry. Microsoft admitted no guilt but agreed to loosen licensing arrangements with computer manufacturers, which often pre-load their machines with the firm's operating systems. The deal may spur more competition for Microsoft, but it removes the threat that the government will try to break up the behemoth...
...from enticing other companies avid for a big buy. Diller may even have to convince himself that Tisch -- a proud man, stung by accusations that he is a timid blunderer in the high-speed world of entertainment commerce -- is not using the Diller name to entice a corporate behemoth with a fatter wallet...
...cluster of young stars threatens to smash offensive records set when George Burns was still in Little League. Seattle's Ken Griffey Jr. is on a pace to hit 65-plus homers. So is Frank Thomas, the Chicago White Sox's baby-faced behemoth. Thomas scored 59 runs by June 1, a record, and Toronto's Joe Carter set an April standard for rbi's. Even pencil-necked pipsqueaks are crushing the ball...
...campaign is useful primarily as a symbol; what the University absolutely must do for its long-term health, officials say, is to turn Harvard's separate financial structures into a single, fiscal behemoth...