Word: grows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...utilization of antitrust suits against Microsoft's steamrolling growth has been overdue for years. Any company that holds a near monopoly over a vital aspect of the booming computer industry (the Windows operating system) and continues to grow at a ravenous pace is due for a reality check...
John Kovacevich, who is the the third generation of the family to grow grapes in the San Joaquin Valley since his grandfather emigrated from Yugoslavia, says that many people may not realize that his work-force is made up of repeat workers who live in the area-contrary to the popular image of itinerant migrant labor...
Winter is the slow part of the grape season, he says--Kovacevich's workers only fertilize and irrigate until March, when the vines begin to grow again...
...outfit in Rockville, Md. Included were flasks of freeze-dried anthrax spores. Iraqi labs reconstituted the spores in soy broth and put them into a small fermenter filled with a growth medium. The medium, Zilinskas says, "was imported from Europe and had nutrients that the anthrax bacteria needed to grow...
Perhaps the clearest sign of Alwaleed's growing influence is that he is attracting serious enemies, including some of his powerful al Saud cousins. "There is jealousy, even hatred," says a Saudi source. "It bothers people that he came from almost nowhere and--zoom!--now he's way up here." Rumors have circulated that he is a front man for others, especially in the Citibank deal. Alwaleed and Western diplomats in Riyadh dismiss them as unfounded. He seems determined to let his influence grow, no matter the consequences. "I have nothing to hide," he says. "I've made $12 billion...