Word: giant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that hardly fazes this hard-charging chopper rider, who says of his quest to rebuild AT&T, "We've just begun to assemble the components." The giant that almost slept through the '90s has awakened in time to make a grab for control of the digital home...
...list because he likes his Explorer and sees his local dealer moving lots of iron. Then he sees Ford stock pull back hugely on Monday, and his mouth waters. But did he consider that Ford's business plan could be derailed by a weakened yen, which amounts to a giant coupon for discounts on Japanese cars? Or did he not think about it and just hope to get lucky...
...combination of talents: size, speed, power, guile and the colossal heart that vanquished the great Joe Frazier. But Ali suffers from the converse of the Ruth argument: by the time Ali came along, the best athletes had been siphoned off by team sports. Ali was a giant, but most of his opponents were relative dwarfs...
...young, aspiring fund manager's dream. Early this month, mutual-fund giant Fidelity reached into obscurity and fingered Matthew Grech, 28, a semiconductor analyst, to run its faltering, $2 billion Select Electronics mutual fund. Bull-market madness? Perhaps. But if it is, Fidelity is not alone. With record amounts of capital flowing in ($30 billion just last month), mutual-fund firms are hunting for fresh talent in novel places--not quite kindergarten, but not very far removed from school...
...chance to run a fund as early as Fidelity, it's not too hard to find a fund at any firm that's watched over by some very innocent eyes--a trend that raises some skeptical industry eyebrows. "It's an interesting concept," cracks Jeffrey Molitor, principal at fund giant Vanguard, a Fidelity competitor, "giving somebody someone else's money to train with...