Word: goliaths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Everything surrounding the trip, from the hostile environment, to the back-to-back match-ups against teams with very different weapons, to the simple fact that Penn and Princeton historically field excellent teams, lends itself to an overall feeling of David facing Goliath...
...Slaying Goliath is possible--Harvard swept the two on the road in '85, Yale accomplished the same in '87--but those are the only two such sweeps in 40 years, a testament to how daunting the task really...
Facher added that the characterization of the case as a David versus Goliath saga is a myth as well...
While Microsoft would like a win here, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson hasn't exactly been sympathetic to the company; the software Goliath is almost certainly looking to a higher court for vindication. "The court of appeals and the Supreme Court have shown themselves recently to be very reluctant to rule against companies in antitrust cases," notes Cohen. For now, Gates can keep those Hail Mary plays...
...primary business is selling a decidedly low-tech commodity: books. Daily, it must stare down a Goliath competitor that has more stores than it has employees. Last quarter it lost nearly $25 million. Now it's rolling the dice and expanding. Would you invest in this company...