Word: behemoths
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...Congress in Cannes, and Nokia doesn't want to be left in the wings. Nokia's eagerness to grab the spotlight shows how badly mobile vendors want to get inside the minds - and budgets - of corporate buyers. One high-ranking mobile-industry executive tells Time that Microsoft and operator behemoth Vodafone are working out a deal to sell Microsoft-based phones to corporate customers, and could announce their alliance this week. (Neither Vodafone nor Microsoft would comment.) Nokia needs to keep a step ahead of Microsoft, which is making slow but steady progress trying to work a pared-down version...
...noticed at all, lining the raincoats on markdown racks--not only is no longer a fashion anathema but is in fact a status symbol. Her feat has more than doubled the company's sales, turning it from a $470 million-a-year enterprise to a $1 billion behemoth...
Once a complement to Bush, Cheney now seems to amplify the President's liabilities. Back in 2000, most people had never heard of Halliburton, the oil-and-gas-and-contracting behemoth that Cheney headed before being tapped by Bush. Cheney isn't helped by the fact that Halliburton has benefited from the Iraq war he championed or that investigations of the company seem to multiply. The Justice Department last week launched a review into alleged bribes the company had flung around the globe in order to obtain foreign contracts. Cheney ran the company during part of the time frame covered...
...played high school football in Lincoln. He was heavily recruited by the Cornhuskers. His teammates are headed to Nebraska. His former teammates are already there. He’s a 6’5, 300-pound behemoth who you could easily see as a Blackshirt...
...come back he has, and by combining the retail network of Bank One with J.P. Morgan Chase's investment-banking power, Dimon is setting up what will arguably be the only broad, financial-services behemoth that can give his alma mater a serious run for its money. Although the two banks' retail customers shouldn't immediately experience any changes as a result of the marriage--Bank One's consumer business is centered in the Middle West and Southwest, J.P. Morgan Chase's in the Northeast, with an overlap only in Texas--shareholders are counting on Dimon to boost their fortunes...