Word: giant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Will whole industries then be dominated by single overlords and smaller niches ruled by barons who brook no competition? Perhaps not. Arrogance will alienate. The alleged philosophy for the agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland, uttered on tape by the chairman's son, was supposedly, "The competitor is our friend, and the customer is our enemy." Such attitudes will not trickle down well...
Microsoft released its long-awaited Windows 95 operating system in August; the Empire State Building wore the colors of Win95 and the Times of London went free for a day, all courtesy of Uncle Bill. Does use of Windows 95 yield a giant leap in productivity for most people? No. A small leap? No. A couple of baby steps? Maybe. But the upgrade comes with a damn good version of Solitaire (oh wait, that came with Windows...
...even with old dice. From his best-selling The Andromeda Strain (the first novel he wrote under his own name), which became a hit movie in 1971, through Jurassic Park, with a worldwide box-office take of $912 million the most popular movie of recorded history, he is a giant even among those other pop novelists--John Grisham, Stephen King, Tom Clancy--whom Hollywood has fallen in love with. Consider the string of Crichton novels that have tapped into popular obsessions and been converted into box-office gold: Rising Sun, his thriller that exploited American fears of Japan's economic...
...three-man, one-woman Publishers Clearing House Prize Patrol moves with military precision. They deplane at the State College, Pennsylvania, airport in crisp blue Prize Patrol blazers, armed with the tools of their trade: Publishers Clearing House balloons, a giant Prize Patrol banner, the famous oversize check, and a dossier on today's winner--one Nellye J. Hall of Clearfield, Pennsylvania. Striding through the parking lot, the team barely acknowledges the gawks and shouts of civilians--"Hey, Prize Patrol, you got a check for me?"--as it boards a rented van and begins the one-hour drive into rural central...
Rain started to fall; water dripped from the shards of glass. Thunder rumbled in the distance, and lightning cracked harshly down, illuminating the giant animals as they moved away...