Word: giant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lobster restaurants to stop serving bread to diners because they filled up on it and ordered less food. It was therefore entirely in character when the relentlessly bottom line-oriented Willes, six weeks into his new job as CEO of Times Mirror, announced massive layoffs at the media giant's newspapers. In less than a week, Willes closed down New York Newsday, cutting about 750 jobs, and then announced an additional 1,000 job reductions company-wide, primarily at the flagship Los Angeles Times...
...postgreenhouse future. The ice caps have melted, and the world is a vast briny sea. Most people live in giant docking stations, atolls, built on water. Prowling the sea like Poseidon's angels are the Smokers, bad guys led by the one-eyed Deacon (Dennis Hopper). The Smokers are looking for Enola (Tina Majorino), a 10-year-old with a map tattoo that may point the way to dry land. With her guardian Helen (Jeanne Tripplehorn), the girl hitches a ride on the trimaran of an outsider--part man, part fish--known as the Mariner (Costner). If anyone in this...
WHISTLE-BLOWERS COME IN ALL different styles, but they don't tend to be the boss's choice to inherit the top job. Mark Whitacre, 38, was just such a favorite at giant Archer Daniels Midland, the company that calls itself "supermarket to the world" because its products range from flour to vegetable oil. So close was Whitacre to ADM chairman Dwayne Andreas that the older man regarded the younger as a "second son." And as if to emulate his mentor, Whitacre lived in a colonial-style mansion in Moweaqua, Illinois, that Andreas once owned...
...until next week, including trips to Norway and the Russian city of Murmansk. RECOVERING. LES PAUL, 80, musician and father of the electric guitar; after collapsing while preparing to travel to a Nashville birthday concert; in Mahwah, New Jersey. OUSTED. G. KIRK RAAB, 59, president and ceo of biotech giant Genentech; following the revelation that he had requested a personal $2 million loan guarantee from Roche Holding Ltd. while negotiating a merger with the firm; in San Francisco. During Raab's five years at Genentech, the company's revenues nearly doubled. But shareholders have been growing restive over earnings...
...nurses. And in a kind of if-you-can't-lick-'em-join-'em move, UCLA is purchasing Santa Monica Hospital in order to launch its own managed-care network. It is also cutting deals with local HMOS -- for example, to perform all transplant surgery for subscribers to the giant Kaiser Permanente plan in Southern California...