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This expand-and-engulf strategy was perfected by Starbucks, which today has more than 800 coffee bars. The coffee business isn't so perky now, but Starbucks is the king of caffeine, outlasting scads of would-be rivals. Its stock, which sold initially for a split-adjusted $5, now trades at $22. The company is worth $1.6 billion...
...both strategies--to engulf and to disgorge--actually be reconciled in today's business world? Richard D'Aveni, a professor of corporate strategy at Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business, sees plenty of room for deals along the lines of both the Time Warner merger and the AT&T breakup. (Businessman Donald Perkins and former U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills sit on both boards, which voted for conflicting goals.) D'Aveni discerns an intrinsic cycle: poorly conceived mergers turning into spin-offs. The aim is to dominate a market, as Microsoft rules software, Delta dominates the Atlanta airport...
...after a humiliating defeat, the Croats are on the move with a well-trained, well-equipped force of more than 100,000. That is the largest army to fight in Europe in 50 years. There is a risk that the battle for Krajina will spin out of control and engulf the Balkans in a wider war, one that could conceivably draw the republics of the former Yugoslavia, as well as their European and American allies, even further into the conflict. At the same time, however, there is a chance--admittedly a remote chance--that if the Croatian offensive succeeds...
...face--severe and curiously bland--that never reveals its secrets. That's perfect for Species, since the audience's sympathies are meant to shift uneasily between the determination of a crack search team to keep the creature from reproducing and the desire of Sil to increase and multiply, engulf and devour. So Sil goes cruising L.A. bars. A gorgeous blond who just wants sex shouldn't have trouble getting a date. But Sil is picky: no junkies, no diabetics. And no survivors. Her embrace is crushing; her French kiss is to die from...
After days of freezing rain, the rivers of northwestern Europe surged over their banks to engulf towns and cities in Germany, France, Belgium and--worst hit--the Netherlands. Dutch authorities, fearing that some of the country's giant earthen dikes would collapse, evacuated more than 200,000 people from the land between the Meuse and the Waal rivers. Thirty deaths were reported across Europe, with total damages estimated at more than $2 billion...