Word: colossuses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Brezhnev's insecurity about his forthcoming U.S. trip. Whatever Brezhnev's systems analysts might tell him of Moscow's emerging military parity, to him America seemed to be a land of superior technology and wondrous capacity, a country of marvelous efficiency compared to the cumbersome Soviet colossus. Brezhnev endlessly sought reassurance that he would be courteously received in America. I was touched by this insecurity...
...made IBM the eighth largest U.S. industrial corporation. Only oil and auto companies are bigger. Last year IBM had earnings of more than $3 billion, the largest for any American manufacturing company. Though hordes of aggressive smaller companies are chipping away at its dominion, IBM will be the colossus of the computer industry far into the future...
...graceless Soviet nudging provided a stark example of the workings of "Finlandization," the pejorative term for Finland's deferential relationship with the colossus next door. Kekkonen, who energetically supported the policy, called it "active neutrality." But to many Westerners, it has come to signify abject neutrality-or what happens to a lightly armed, nonaligned country in close proximity to the Soviet Union. According to some worst-case scenarios, all of Western Europe would be prone to Finlandization if it unilaterally scrapped the protection of its own and U.S. nuclear arms...
...coatings and auto paints. But for the company that invented nylon and Teflon, growth has come mainly from in-house research and innovation rather than conglomerate building. The addition of Conoco would more than double Du Pont's size, and some Wall Street analysts fear that the new colossus would lose some technological drive. Says John Henry of E.F. Hutton: "Du Pont can forget about its image as a specialized company diversifying into high technology. It will become just a big commodities giant...
...Alberta real estate and energy exploration firm. Though less than half Conoco's size, Cities Service holds exploration rights to 10 million acres in the U.S., as well as additional acreage in Canada. A merger of Conoco and Cities Service would have created a $26 billion energy colossus, the seventh largest U.S. oil company...