Word: giant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Will the real IBM please stand up? In recent weeks the struggling computer giant has stunned Wall Street with surprisingly strong first-quarter profits and has watched its stock price soar. Along with those gains, Big Blue has rolled out lines of powerful business computers that the company hopes will help to spearhead its comeback over the long haul; the versatile large and midsize machines can handle anything from banking transactions to running factory floors. "I think the worst is behind IBM," says Richard Zwetchkenbaum, who watches the firm for International Data Corp. John Coyle, a computer analyst for Standard...
...home from Europe, Senna's coffin, curtained off in the business-class section, had already become a shrine as passengers came up and knelt beside it in prayer. Later, as he was being laid to rest in Morumbi cemetery, planes of the Brazilian air force twisted overhead, drawing a giant S and a heart...
...show-biz tycoon. But the movies and plays he produces, partly with his share of the family wealth, all bomb; he returns, chastened, to the place being held for him in the family firm. There he unexpectedly shows a fair executive talent and succeeds in keeping an already giant company growing, largely by diversifying beyond whiskeymaking. But he remains screenstruck, and as he approaches his 39th birthday next week, makes a second run at the glitter world -- this time by launching, in alliance with some of the top names in Hollywood, a titanic battle to take over the world...
...problems of privacy even as they increase convenience and efficiency. Maryland became the first state to provide debit cards for welfare clients last year when it issued its "Independence Card" to 170,000 households that received public aid. The cards enable recipients to shop at supermarkets such as Giant and Safeway as well as at 3,500 other stores around the state; families on welfare can also use the cards to withdraw cash from ATM machines and to pay utility bills and rent for public housing. Among other benefits, these cards have virtually eliminated the expense of preparing and distributing...
...with runners at first and second, two out and the score tied in the ninth, would have the best chance of driving the run home? (The managers were not allowed to vote for one of their own players.) The winners were both clear-cut: Blue Jay Paul Molitor and Giant Barry Bonds...