Word: giant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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 has been seriously lacking in institutional integrity...
...that period. The Dow Jones industrial average blew past the 6300 marker last week, more than double its level less than five years ago. America is on a roll, and with Wall Street euphoric over the election results, it seems nothing can go wrong. U.S.A. all the way! Besides, giant U.S. companies such as Coca-Cola, Gillette and Philip Morris are doing more business in foreign countries every year, giving shareholders of those domestic blue chips all the foreign exposure they may want. Foreign stocks--who needs...
Italy's milk giant Parmalat also has cola on its mind. The company makes a boxed, ultra-heated milk, popular in Italy, that has a shelf life of up to six months. In the U.S. market, Parmalat has introduced boxed and fresh varieties and is spending $25 million on advertising in an effort to make itself "the Coca-Cola of milk...
...begin with the strongest: technology. The N64's greatest miracles come from a specially developed internal processing chip that does one thing--paint rich pictures on your TV--better than any other device in history. Called the Reality Co-Processor, the chip was designed by 3-D special-effects giant Silicon Graphics (of Jurassic Park fame) and built by Japanese chip monolith NEC. Even as computers do more in smaller spaces, there's something extraordinary here: SGI and NEC have stuffed the sophistication of a $10,000 workstation into...
Forget artists and spies; the real market for Sony's compact new digital camcorder is teens who are forced to endure the embarrassment of tourist dads pointing their giant cameras at every Paris cafe. This tiny, 1-lb. DCR-PC7 camera, with its 2.5-in. screen that swivels out to preview each shot, lets Dad always have Paris and the kids their dignity. ($3,199; Sony...