Word: giant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Presumably this trend was to continue, even in the face of George Bush's pork rinds, Ross Perot's "giant sucking" sounds, Bill Clinton's morning McDonald's runs (and evening, and noontime, and midmorning...), Garth Brooks's popularity and the rise of Home Shopping Club...
Stahlman agreed that the computer giant was not responsible for the decision. "I do not believe IBM played any direct role in having the story canceled," said Stahlman...
Traumatic as the cutbacks are to the giant firm's employees, they underwhelmed Wall Street analysts. Many think IBM has yet to bite the final bullet, and must pare its costs and payrolls further. (See related stories beginning on page...
...bourgeois German household has been banished in favor of an American apartment decorated in 1960s high tacky. The Stahlbaum children get a giant Barbie doll and a spaceman at their family Christmas Eve party. The guests are dressed in the worst excesses of a quarter-century ago, and before long they are drunk and lubricious. Postmodern choreographer Mark Morris, never at a loss for a flip word or gesture, insists that his take on the Tchaikovsky classic is not a send-up, but that is exactly what it is -- rude, boisterous and more than a little, well, nutty...
JONATHAN SHEINBERG WAS VISITING HIS FATHER'S California home when he overheard Dad talking on the phone about selling his company to a Japanese firm. This wasn't just any dad. Sidney Sheinberg is president of Hollywood's giant MCA Inc., and he was talking about its yet undisclosed sale to Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. When Sheinberg Sr. realized that Junior was listening in, he correctly warned his son to keep the news to himself and certainly not trade in the stock. But Jonathan just couldn't keep a secret, the SEC says. He has agreed...