Word: behemoths
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...other words, we have a new (and French) vertically integrated media behemoth. The small group of big companies - AOL Time Warner, Disney, Fox - fighting not only to produce but deliver their sports, music, movies, TV shows and "interactive programming" to the U.S. couch potatoes that love them has a new member. Just a year after swallowing Universal Studios (and its theme parks), the former French water utility now figures it's ready to, in the words of former Fox TV creator Diller, "compete in the first tier of entertainment...
...WILLIAM HASELTINE, 57, combines a passion for scientific exploration and a talent for directing researchers toward practical and profitable products. By investigating the genes most relevant to pharmaceutical research, HUMAN GENOME SCIENCES is transforming itself into the world's first genomics-based pharmaceutical behemoth. It already has six drugs in clinical trials, for diseases including lupus, colitis and several chemotherapy- induced ailments. Haseltine's approach to decoding the genome promises to bring biotech's benefits more quickly to patients and shareholders alike...
...steel industry's problems are roughly the same as they were at the turn of the century when Carnegie Steel, Federal Steel and eight other steel companies formed the behemoth U.S. Steel: Excess capacity, slumping prices and profit margins squeezed by too much competition. (The pension problem came later.) That merger helped, but debt-ridden, none-too-efficient U.S. Steel steadily shed market share over the next century - especially to an explosion of foreign competitors after WWII - and today produces only marginally more steel than...
...nation in the next decade pushing for freer, fairer global trade, it would do well not have any of those hypocrisies hanging around its neck. Let Big Steel find a size and a shape commensurate with its competitive abilities - 21st century America doesn't need its own steel behemoth any more than it needs its own TV makers...
Harvard’s most prized defensive possession, Balestracci will likely finish the year first in team tackles despite missing two games with an injury. He is a behemoth in the middle, swallowing up anyone who dares cross his path. Following up his Ivy Rookie of the Year campaign of last season, Balestracci has demonstrated his immense talent throughout the 2001 season. Don’t be surprised if he scores a touchdown for Harvard in The Game...