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...MORE THAN A DECADE HE HAS TOWERED OVER the world of computing like a boyish, tousle-haired colossus, controlling the software that runs our desktop computers and helping transform a hobbyist toy into the engine of a $100 billion industry...
THINK OF ALL THE LIES I GOT TO put up with!" bellows Big Daddy in Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He's a cantankerous colossus--a self-made cotton mogul whose vast fortune has drawn around him a circle of toadies and fools. His is the glutted cry of someone finally facing the truth about his life. Only he hasn't yet met the truth. For he has been lied to even more extensively than he supposes. Told that he's suffering from a minor intestinal ailment, he's actually riddled with cancer. Those closest...
...heartburn medications. "This is a blockbuster," says Paul Kelly, president of Silvermine Consulting Group, in Westport, Connecticut. "It's the most dramatic medical launch since Advil." Two acid blockers, Tagamet HB and Pepcid AC, have begun battling it out for market share, and two more--including the British colossus Zantac in over-the-counter form--will be joining the fray by next year...
...company be just too darned big? Trustbusters and federal judges have often said so. But for the chief executive of a corporate colossus to agree sounds contrary to nature. And for said chief to insist, entirely voluntarily, on busting up his own company into three pieces--well, only last week did the idea change from unheard of to heard of once. In laconic tones, chairman Robert Allen announced at a Manhattan press conference that he had persuaded the AT&T board to break the company into three independent corporations. It will be the biggest corporate split-up ever, as measured...
CREATORS OF A MEDIA COLOSSUS...