Word: giant
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...Fisher joins a growing band of rescue artists of the not-grown-at-home variety. Prominent among them is Louis V. Gerstner, who was recruited in March from the top job at RJR Nabisco to become chairman and CEO of IBM, the once great computer giant that has lost $8.37 billion so far this year. In June a troubled Westinghouse Electric asked Michael H. Jordan, a partner at the New York City investment firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice, to succeed outgoing chairman Paul Lego. Former Union Pacific chairman Michael Walsh replaced James Ketelsen at Tenneco, a Houston-based auto-parts, shipbuilding...
Photographic giant Eastman Kodak successfully wooed George Fisher, chairman of high-tech electronics firm Motorola, to become its new chairman and chief executive officer, effective immediately. Fisher had brilliantly positioned Motorola to compete in the new world of communications, and his move shocked the company's board and employees...
...said that he particularly enjoyed themagician, whom he helped with two card tricks, andthe hula hoop which was used to surround childrenin giant bubbles...
...National Science Foundation: "There's no single country, including ours, that can afford such a big project." In the future, U.S. scientists will have to rely more on international partnerships. A model is the Switzerland-based CERN laboratory, a consortium financed by 18 countries that is building its own giant accelerator. The large hadron collider will be only 40% as powerful as the SSC, but has a good chance of doing comparable science. That won't be much consolation, though, to the people who converged on Waxahachie expecting to take part in the grandest experiment of all time...
...Mart, the retail discount giant, was prepared for just about any misgiving the residents of Greenfield, Massachusetts, might have. In exchange for turning a 63-acre lot into a 121,267-sq.-ft. store, they would pay the town $100,000 in annual taxes and cover much needed road improvements too. The store even agreed to spring for an archaeological dig on the site, once an Indian campground. "All people were thinking was, 'This is where I'm going to get cheap underwear,' " says resident Al Norman...