Word: giant
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...telco needing vast capital to upgrade your network to compete with data-rich cable lines that are already connected to many homes. Says Ken Zita, managing partner of Network Dynamics, a New York City-based telephone specialist: "I see a future where no more than five or six giant phone companies will dominate the landscape...
...this good news for anyone other than, say, five or six giant phone companies? "The world will be a much simpler place for consumers," argues NYNEX's Seidenberg, "with more choices, more services and more products united under a single roof and unified brand." Seidenberg says phone bills should deflate as the companies merge their billing and cut their labor costs; thousands of jobs will be downsized in the Bell Atlantic/NYNEX upsizing...
...World Trade Center twice), the Stratosphere opens with 1,500 rooms and 97,000 sq. ft. of casino space, and a promenade with a handsomely designed World's Fair theme. By year's end Stupak hopes to have completed an additional 1,000 rooms, a retail mall, a giant pool and a King Kong-size gorilla ride--a 70-ft.-high mechanical ape that will climb up the building with happily terrified passengers inside...
...Bobel. But say this about the Stratosphere: the man did it. In time it may fly or fall; today it is the instant dominant Vegas symbol. The Stratosphere could be Stupak's Tinker Toy gift to the gaming industry, or it could be the ultimate sardonic gesture--a giant metallic finger to those who have doubted...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Dr. Ian Osterloh, a Britain-based researcher has in conjunction with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer developed a drug which he claims will restore full sexual function to impotent men. "The medication acts on a certain part of bio-chemistry of blood vessels so more blood flow can occur which enhances the erection," says TIME's Christine Gorman. "What's interesting is that the study didn't just ask men to report on the effectiveness of the drugs, but that the partners were also asked and that they to saw a significant improvement." In one study...