Word: giant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...analysts give the holdouts four years to either get wired or get left far behind. Consumers can already pay bills and check balances through computer networks like America Online and CompuServe. Microsoft, too, has been signing up banks to provide electronic financial services. Integrion plans to battle the software giant by linking consumers to accounts through the Internet, and with financial software like Intuit's Quicken. The partners will also set up interactive kiosks that act like bank branches for home banking away from home. "With this new venture," says IBM chairman Louis Gerstner, "electronic commerce will take its biggest...
Dole has for years been famously tight with contributor Dwayne Andreas, the chairman of agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland. Andreas, along with his company and members of his clan, has provided more than $475,000 for Dole's operations since 1979. Dole has proudly called himself "Senator Ethanol" in honor of the corn-based fuel that ADM produces and that Dole has long protected with tax subsidies. But Dole has also played a crucial role in making the sweetener market profitable for ADM by championing the sugar price-support program. ADM is the world's largest producer of high-fructose...
...giant in biology, no question," said Andrew H. Knoll, chair of the Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Department. "All of us in the department will lament the fact that he will not be teaching any more...
...approached the table with trepidation. An awkward-looking man and woman dressed in clashing pastel 'Miami-Vice' jackets looked increasingly agitated in their seats. One of them looked ready to leave her tuna melt and giant chocolate chip cookie and pounce on me, the would-be assassin. So there's the Secret Service, I thought. They seemed invisible until you actually looked at them. I smiled a nice innocent smile and slid past, following our menacing bee-line towards the First Daughter and her luncheon companions. Having passed the security barrier, Chelsea looked up at us in an encouraging...
Incumbency is a powerful tool. Clinton gives a few big waves, then stretches to cool down and beckons to an aide. Things start to happen. Local cops block off the lanes nearest the school and slow down the commuter traffic in the others. The cumbersome motorcade column makes a giant U-turn and pulls onto the highway. Agents secure the area, and Clinton goes over and shakes a block's worth of hands. Little kids stick their tiny fists through the cyclone fence; big kids and teachers grasp high over the top. Fifteen minutes later, as the motorcade pulls away...