Word: behemoths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With a vision he once publicly compared to Barry Diller's plans for QVC, Sculley had hoped to parlay the valuable patents of the once little-known company into a behemoth befitting a new name he dreamed up for Spectrum: Global Wave Communications. What was to have been a comeback for the 54-year- old executive, who stepped down last June after failing to restart Apple's stalled rise, instead poses new questions about his business acumen...
...introduced to Harvard's behemoth fundraising machine gently, through a Senior Gift committee composed of an overwhelming number of seniors charged with getting their friends to give to Harvard in the name of the Class...
...result has been a relentless stream of outrageous books, movies and television shows, beginning with Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, published 61 years ago, and continuing through the summer's box-office behemoth, Jurassic Park. There are mysteries, thrillers, love stories -- even a sci-fi parody of an old pop song ("Weird Al" Yankovic's I Think I'm a Clone Now, sung to the tune of Tommy James and the Shondells' I Think We're Alone Now). Cloning, in fact, has been a fertile enough subject to earn its own lengthy entry in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction...
...protests have grown in proportion to the relentless, expansionary march of behemoth retailers. Hundreds of new megastores are opening annually: major retailers spent over $11 billion in 1992 on capital expenditures for new stores, 16% more than in 1991. Wal-Mart, which began the year with 1,880 stores, now has 1,954, and will add 150 by January. Home Depot is expanding at a rate of one store a week...
...president of Harvard Student Agencies (HSA), he manages the day-to-day operations of a campus behemoth: a $3.5 million corporation, comprising 10 separate divisions and employing more than 1,000 of his classmates...