Word: giant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...store may have once been a Square giant, but now it squeaks by on donations. That change also reflects a shift at Harvard, once a bastion, if not a hotbed, of Marxism...
...giant leaks compounded the havoc in a part of Texas that had already been declared a disaster area. Early last week, a massive storm front that parked itself over Southeast Texas began washing the region away. In some places, rivers prowled nine miles from their banks, marauding through neighborhoods that had never seen flooding before. Water poured over earthen levees, bubbled up through storm cellars and then broke into at least 6,000 residences...
Some critics of the movement argue that parents may have too much freedom under current laws. Only 10 states require parents to have a high school diploma or General Equivalency Diploma to be able to teach. "It's a giant step backward," argues Thomas Shannon, executive director of the National School Boards Association, which represents more than 15,000 public-school boards across the country. "People tend to think, as one old basketball coach said, that everybody can boil water and coach basketball, and they kind of feel the same way about teaching. They just don't know what they...
Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, publisher of PC Magazine -- fave of DOS dweebs -- was bought for $1.4 billion by Forstmann Little & Co, a New York investment firm run by high profile banker Ted Forstmann. Included in the deal is the giant publishing arm of Ziff Communications, which includes other magazines like MacWeek and Family PC, as well as Ziffnet, an on-line service. It's a move by Forstmann, a shrewd dealmaker, to keep pace with rival Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, which controls New York magazine and other media properties, says TIME associate editor Thomas McCarroll. "They have had this rivalry...
...powerful new alliance of giant communications companies is taking shape just in time to bid for new slices of the airwaves under Sprint?s national brand umbrella. The nation?s No. 3 long-distance phone company announced today it would team with three leading cable TV operators -- TCI, Comcast, and Cox -- to compete with Baby Bells and establish a national wireless communication network. Dealmaking in the wireless business has accelerated in the past month. Also in just ahead of the FCC's Friday deadline: Bell Atlantic-Nynex and U S West-AirTouch...