Word: dynamo
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Dell, have such enormous scale and low cost structures that they can use aggressive pricing to bleed their rivals. Other relatively smaller players, like Toyota, Steel Dynamics and Southwest Airlines, are so efficient and innovative that they can steal customers away from lumbering giants. Certain companies, like online-auction dynamo eBay, offer a service that lots of struggling firms and consumers are eager to use in hard times...
Fisher was everywhere at once yesterday. The sophomore dynamo has been asked to drop back to help out on defense more this fall, but with her speed and athleticism, she still manages to figure into the offense...
...clumsy beasts doomed to underperformance. In the two decades since he took the helm from Reginald Jones, another legend, the wiry, intense Welch, son of a train conductor from Salem, Mass., has turned a sprawling $27 billion-a-year industrial conglomerate into a $130 billion-a-year diversified dynamo that sells everything from aircraft engines, power turbines and CT scanners to life insurance, sitcoms, light bulbs and dishwashers. He exited businesses that GE couldn't dominate, from semiconductors to toasters, and earned the nickname "Neutron Jack" for his massive layoffs...
...dynamo of energy who has been very active his entire time at Harvard, not only as a student but in his activities as well," Risenger said...
...only enhanced by the flippant, let's-see-how-far-over-the-top-we-can-go nature of his work. Eight years after becoming an indelible symbol for the resourceful tactics of guerilla filmmaking with the taut, no-budget wonder El Mariachi, Rodriguez has become an eye-candy dynamo; a gleeful purveyor of pulp so jammed with spicy flavor that it seems ready to rupture on screen at any moment. With the propulsive mayhem of his neo-Spaghetti Western Desperado, Rodriguez established himself as a caffeine-saturated John Woo incarnate, filling the screen with delectable orgies of balletic gunplay...