Word: colossuses
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...hopes the fellowship will give him freedom to experiment, which it seems he has already begun doing. “Downtown,” the essay he read for the Harvard audience from his upcoming book, The Colossus of New York, is a work that he describes as “impressionistic...
...company is a victim of its own reach. Van der Hoeven, 55, is a tall, heavy-smoking former Shell executive with a commanding manner. When he took over as CEO in 1993, he promptly launched an international acquisition binge that turned the once family-owned firm into a colossus with 35 companies spread over four continents and sales in 2002 the company puts at more than €70 billion. "He's been exemplary," says David Pinto, editor of a trade magazine that made Van der Hoeven its Retailer of the Year for 2001. But he also loaded Ahold with more...
...depends on the kind of technological advances that are always hard to predict. About the same time that Schrodinger unleashed his quantum cat, the British mathematician Alan Turing was sketching out the theory of the modern digital computer. A decade later, during World War II, Turing was helping program Colossus, a room-size electronic calculating machine that used 1,800 vacuum tubes to crack German codes. The abstraction had become real...
...masses with airhead pop groups and infotainment, criminal mastermind Lex Luthor has secretly taken control of the U.S. behind a virtual-reality President. Batman, thought dead by the rest of the world, rescues various imprisoned heroes like The Atom, who controls his height from sub-atomic size to colossus, The Flash, who can run to the other side of the world in less than a second, and Plastic Man, who turns himself into any shape he desires. Together they battle not only Luthor, but also Superman, now forced to due Luthor's bidding for reasons too silly to explain here...
...Jersey Nets. Most important, in the past decade, he paid more than $60 billion for 200 major corporate acquisitions and hundreds of smaller ones--a frenzied shopping spree that helped turn Tyco, once a sleepy, industrial-parts manufacturer with $3 billion in annual sales, into a global colossus that pulled in $36 billion last year, selling items as diverse as diapers and fire alarms...