Word: giant
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After a year of legal wrangling with local residents who opposed granting a special permit for a fast food license, Starbucks, the coffee giant, managed to replace Steve's Ice Cream on Church St. Housed in what was once Cambridge's first jail, it joins sister stores one located in The Garage, another on Broadway next to Broadway Market and one on Mass. Ave. and Linnaean St., near Radcliffe Quad...
...time has come for Harvard to seriously consider divesting from the Texaco Corporation. The recent scandal in which top Texaco executives were taped discussing their own discriminatory policies is only the latest evidence that the oil giant is seriously lacking in institutional integrity. There has long been evidence that the company discriminates in its hiring and promotion policies, most notably based on a 1991 finding for $17.6 million to a California woman passed over for promotion in favor of a male colleague, as well as a 1995 reprimand by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs for unfair employment practices...
Witticisms and wisecracks were the weapons of choice for Harvardians--students and administrators alike--trying to deflect the threat posed by the giant "number three" hanging invisibly over University Hall...
Where Gilmartin is today is atop Merck & Co., the fastest-growing of the world's major pharmaceutical companies. Since joining Merck as CEO in June of 1994, Gilmartin has overseen an epic turnaround in the century-old giant. Last year, he led the $114 billion company to 45 percent return to shareholders, and Business Week ranked Merck number one in its industry--and sixth overall--among the Standard & Poor's 500 corporations...
What's Victoria's real secret? well, possibly that some of those frilly unmentionables ogled in catalogues and purchased from pink boutiques may be illegally imported from China. That's the allegation being leveled at the Limited, the retail giant that controls Victoria's Secret, as well as at Lane Bryant, Structure, Express and Abercrombie & Fitch. In a civil fraud case recently unsealed in Los Angeles, the U.S. textile industry, which includes manufacturers such as Springs Industries, claims it has revealing evidence that the Limited knowingly purchased reams of Chinese apparel mislabeled to indicate that it was manufactured in Hong...