Word: giant
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...would have guessed that a little baby-blue tablet designed to restore potency to the impotent would pack such a wallop? In June, Kaiser Permanente, the giant HMO with the imperial name, announced that it had decided not to cover the cost of the $10 erection pill for its 9 million members. Just three weeks later, the little pill had become a symbol of one of the nation's hottest political issues: what HMOs do and don't pay for. Viagra's role in the debate was heightened last week when the federal agency that administers Medicaid told the states...
Like a jetliner that keeps hitting turbulence, the Boeing Co. has been lurching through some stomach-churning rides. An embarrassing failure to meet delivery schedules helped force the Seattle giant to take a $178 million loss in 1997--its first red ink in 50 years--and to report a 90% drop in profits for the first quarter of 1998. The problem: shortages of parts and a production system that could not keep up with the largest surge of new orders in the history...
WASHINGTON: When AT&T and cable giant Telecommunications Inc.(TCI) announced merger plans last month, FCC chairman William Kennard jumped right in and gave his blessing. The merger promised new technologies and new conveniences for customers. So why has Congress been holding hearings on the merger when its members should be out campaigning or something? Two words: Ralph Nader...
...Rotary and Kiwanis clubs covered the day's expenses. While few pine for such simplicity today, some festival participants found it a particular outrage that the quintessential cherry product, pie, had been essentially hijacked by the deep-pocketed, frozen-food mass marketer Sara Lee. When a forerunner of the giant company bought out a local pie plant in 1979, the writing was on the wall for any prospective local competitor. One rival, frustrated by the pie-slice prohibition, tried something especially bold last year. She mashed up her pies, put the fragments in plastic cups and called them cobbler...
Ulterior Motive by Daniel Oran: A former program manager at Microsoft (he invented the Start button for Windows 95), Oran tells the tale of Jonathan Goodman, project manager at "giant Seattle-based computer firm" Megasoft. Goodman stumbles onto a conspiracy after a colleague and Megasoft's billionaire owner are murdered...