Word: giant
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Getting comfortable, however, has proven to be something that the Vikings veterans won't let Birk to do for very long. It turns out that the coaches aren't the only ones that are so demanding of the red-headed giant. Locker room hijinks of Birk's less-than-accommodating teammates have added a little spice to the monotonous workday...
...Iacocca launched EV Global in late 1996. Now EVG has 10 employees, support from Taiwan's Giant bicycle (which produces the E-Bike) and backing from private Swiss and Italian financiers ("Europe is our next stop," he says). Iacocca has also invested in Energy Conversion Devices, an innovative Detroit batterymaker run by former General Motors chairman Robert Stempel, and in Unique Mobility Inc., which designs some of the world's most advanced electric motors. "We're assembling all the people who want to be part of the electric-vehicle revolution," says Iacocca. "This is how you get it started...
Kansas City-based Sprint is another activist firm that has reached out to local organizations and identified qualified people with disabilities for a host of jobs, says Margaret Hastings, the company's human-resources manager. According to the communications giant, an estimated 385 employees out of a total of 51,000 have designated themselves as having a disability. The company tries to work with people where and when they need it, Hastings adds. "The company gave me an opportunity when I felt I didn't have any options," says Deanne Dirksen, 24, a department assistant based in Louisville...
...rising 584% in 1998. If advertisers come to view the Net the way they view television, as a medium where it's worth spending billions to reach viewers, Yahoo investors could find themselves, if not on the ground floor, at least on the ninth or 10th floor of a giant skyscraper...
DIED. BRIAN MOORE, 77, Belfast-born author; in Malibu, Calif. In his 20 novels, Moore used sparse prose to tackle giant themes including faith, morality and the bigotry of denizens of his native city. An expatriot whose first novel, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, detailed the life of an unmarried Belfast woman, Moore particularly floored critics with his empathically crafted female characters...