Word: giant
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Robert Shaw, the public relations director at Blackcomb, near Vancouver, Canada, estimates that snowboarders provide 40% of the business there. French ski giant Rossignol-Dynaster has seen its snowboard production increase 100% in the past three years, and according to product manager Jean-Karl Carpano of Rossignol, "We could see every other person on a snowboard by 2005." There are some isolated ski areas that prohibit snowboarding, but the vast majority caters to the ever increasing numbers of boarders who want to tweak the halfpipes and bonk some fat air (ride the parabolic-shaped chutes and hit a really good...
...these ideas. Groups such as Aryan Nations have taken advantage of the Web's global access and its virtually unregulated use. The Web is a great equalizer. Any small organization can, with a little programming knowledge, construct a web site that looks as impressive as that of a corporate giant...
...retrieve all the software you need when you need it. All your computer really has to have is a fast processor, a good Internet connection and a few built-in programs to handle E-mail and word processing. If the price is right, predicts Larry Ellison, chairman of software giant Oracle and one of the idea's chief promoters, "everyone will have one of these things...
...Bradstreet, the multibillion-dollar business-information giant, said it would split itself into three companies. Unlike AT&T's reorganization, the move will not be coupled with huge job cuts: less than 2% of Dun & Bradstreet's 50,000 employees will...
...social phenomenon, AT&T's move is the most decisive signal yet that the old bonds of mutual loyalty between worker and giant company are being strained to the breaking point. Of all American firms, AT&T probably came closest to a Japanese-style identification of worker with corporation. It was once common for an AT&T employee, asked by a new acquaintance what he did, rather than replying "I'm an accountant" or "I'm an engineer" to say "I work for the phone company...