Word: giant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Giant lecture classes foster disillusionment-students soon convince themselves that Harvard's big name professors are largely just big names. But Harvard professors--from the most junior faculty to the likes of Cornel West--are very open to talking with students. Faculty holds office hours at least once a week, and these hour-long sessions are an ideal time to dish with a favorite professor about class, college and life in general. Just think of a perfunctory question to ask and head on down...
Just in case the smut repels prospective investors, Warshavsky is diversifying into myriad online properties, including a gambling site, a psychic site and a site prescribing Viagra. He has often repeated his mantra of aspiring to be the Sumner Redstone of New Media (referring to the chairman of giant Viacom), but as it stands, he remains closer to being the Internet's Larry Flynt...
...during lunch and recess for the express purpose of finding out "what sparks kids." To thank Watchung School for its cooperation, the network has "contributed" $7,000 worth of keyboards. Education Market Resources conducts focus groups in schools on behalf of Kentucky Fried Chicken, McDonald's, Mattel and advertising giant Leo Burnett. "We are strictly a kids' market-research firm," says Bob Reynolds, president of the Kansas-based company. "We never promote or market goods." But the information it collects is provided to other companies that then promote and market their own goods...
After spending five years as a construction-site manager at Korea's giant conglomerate Samsung, Chung Hwan Oak was used to giving orders, not taking them. So making sales calls for his new catering business was hard on his pride. After bowing deeply, Chung, 49, would pitch his hot-pot lunches--steaming vegetables with shrimp and fiery pepper sauce--then explain how he had lost his Samsung job. Often people slammed the door in his face. Those who listened didn't offer him a chair. The frosty treatment stung, but Chung knew that in status-conscious Korea, Samsung...
Less than three years ago, South Korea joined the ranks of the world's most developed nations, and parents aspired to get their sons into white-collar jobs at such giant chaebol, or conglomerates, as Samsung that dominate the economy. More than a year of life under the yoke of a humiliating $58 billion bailout from the International Monetary Fund has crushed all that. A bright horizon of lifetime jobs and seemingly nonstop growth has suddenly dimmed. In its place: soaring unemployment, a more competitive role in the global economy and diminished expectations for a country that had worked hard...