Word: behemoths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This came on the behemoth shoulders of sophomore halfback Chris Menick, who himself turned in the second-best rushing performance in Harvard history...
...wireless technologies could lure impatient users away from cumbersome dial-up services. Customers could also become turned off by the increasingly intrusive ads, upon which AOL's flat-price business model now depends. And while Microsoft has yet to perfect its own MSN service, even Case observes that Gates' behemoth usually gets things right on the third or fourth try; when Microsoft finally gets its browser, mail, Internet access and content fully integrated into its Windows operating system, users may find it easier to get to the rich content of the Web that way rather than through the suburban environment...
...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...