Word: giant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Continental airlines, No. 3 and No. 5 in the industry, respectively, that they are talking about merging to become No. 1. Then, presumably, they could really kick some tails. An acquisition of Continental, twice bankrupt and now en route to record earnings, by once struggling Delta would create a giant with more than $18 billion in revenues. But the consolidation could reduce competition. "I see the Justice Department digging in their heels and not allowing this acquisition to go through," says Michael Bradley, a finance professor at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University...
Stars keep falling out of the firmament at Fidelity Investments, the Boston-based mutual-fund giant. Last week Brian Posner, the highly regarded manager of the popular Equity Income II Fund, left to join E.M. Warburg Pincus and Co., a much smaller New York house. Posner's departure is troubling for Fidelity because he was the post-cowboy model the firm has been promoting to restore confidence among investors; each of Fidelity's 15 biggest funds was trailing the S&P 500 at the end of November. Posner, 35, has been steady and successful since he took over the Equity...
...1980s and sated your craving for first downs, slap shots and strikeouts as a sports tycoon in the 1990s. It isn't possible to be a conscious adult and not have contributed to the Huizenga stash in some small way. Now the man who built what has become waste-giant WMX Technologies, video-king Blockbuster Entertainment and perhaps the biggest collection of sports properties anywhere (Miami Dolphins, Florida Panthers, Florida Marlins) wants you to make another contribution. And--gulp--this time he's thinking...
...starts, naturally, with mint cars from the factory floor. And that is the piece to this giant puzzle that Huizenga and his brain trust at Republic are working on feverishly today. Huizenga, who built his trash and video empires via rapid acquisitions, will spend about $250 million next year to build used-car megalots from the ground up. But to complement that investment, he's about to embark on a takeover spree of new-car dealerships...
...controversial Great Hall is now partitioned into two seminar rooms and an impressive atrium. A glass-walled hallway will divide the space, while original wood panelling still covers the walls of the seminar rooms. The giant fireplaces on both walls look even more imposing within the smaller confines...