Word: giant
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...suggestion that leapt to mind for many people was the oft-discussed need for real fast food. One friend suggested settling the question of which vendor will have access to the elite Harvard market by opening up a giant mud pit outside the Science Center and charge admission for the chance to watch a representative from each of the country's major fast food chains duke it out with weapons of his or her choice. Another friend suggested opening up a seedy pool hall, while another proposed a bowling alley, or a swimming pool, or a slip and slide. From...
...nothing to make a federal case out of--unless you happen to be Jess Jackson. The burly lawyer turned winemaker created a new market segment with Kendall-Jackson Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay. When mistakes are made like Shand's, he believes it's because Turning Leaf's owner, industry giant E. & J. Gallo Winery, has unfairly copied his bottle design. So Jackson is suing Gallo, claiming it has co-opted sales of his category-topping Vintner's Reserve. Gallo disputes the charges, but there is no disputing Turning Leaf's rousing success. It shot up to second place in less...
...group stumbled into a magnificent wreck. Water poured through a hole in the roof, mushrooms grew on the floor. "The theater was almost impassable," Stern recalls. "Plaster was all over the stairs, like an alpine slag heap. We each carried giant flashlights and wore hard hats. Birds were flying through, dropping their stuff as we passed. It was a mess, but of course a very romantic mess. Michael was quick to see not only the romance but the potential." What Eisner also came to see, after two years of tough negotiations, was a deal that included low-interest loans from...
...FRANCISCO: A federal jury put aside the wrath of grape magnate Jess Jackson, denying winery Kendall-Jackson's claim that industry giant E&J Gallo deliberately copied its bottle. The suit matched two of California's most stubborn and litigious vintners, Jackson and Ernest Gallo, over whether Gallo's Turning Leaf Chardonnay was designed to cleverly imitate the look (and sales success) of Kendall Jackson's top-selling Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay. Indeed, with its flanged top, visible cork and yellowing grape leaf, Gallo's bottle looks remarkably similar. It's been similar in the stores, as well: in just...
...fourth of the 860 full-and part-time gate workers, ticket agents and mechanics, will be laid off as USAirways continues a cost-cutting reorganization of its hub system by routing more flights through Philadelphia. The moves are an attempt to continue the remaking of US Airways into the giant it once was and not the bloated behemoth that did not have a profitable year between 1988 and 1995. Since Stephen M. Wolf was elected chairman in early 1996, however, USAirways has been on something of a warpath. One of Wolf's first moves was to order...