Word: colossuses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bold architects of the $33 billion deal, the largest communications merger in American history, with prospects of creating a corporate colossus extending telephone and cable-television wires into roughly one out of every four American households, simply got cold feet. And it was more than government regulations that pulled them apart. The price of their stocks was plunging, and doubts about the economic wisdom of the merger were on the rise. And the deal may have been too big and too hasty. Wall Street reacted with a 51.78-point drop in the stock market on Thursday...
...film Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, now re-made for HBO (Dec. 11, 8 p.m. EST), Nancy is trapped by a philandering husband and a cruel, cruel fate. Afflicted with ray burns suffered when she is seized by a huge space monster, Nancy is transmogrified into a murdering colossus and ultimately killed by a sheriff wielding a riot...
...memories, let's recall that the whole RJR fiasco got started when a hard-drinking, cigar-smoking, foul-mouthed Canadian expatriate named F. Ross Johnson, who for some inexplicable reason found himself running the 19th largest industrial company in the U.S., decided to take the food and tobacco colossus private in a leveraged buyout...
...Colossus of Cinder Block...
Unlike the ivy-covered colonial buildings that most of the undergraduates at Harvard enjoy, Currier is a colossus of cinder block...