Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That task was made harder by the fact that Korea's economy is one of the world's most inbred. The vast majority of the nation's wealth is held by a dozen or so gigantic interlocking conglomerates called chaebols. The huge firms employ most of the adult working population and own most of the banks, which during a decade of superheated growth lent far too much money back to their parent companies for risky investments all over the world. As those projects faltered, so did the banks. And as overseas lenders tried to recoup their investments, Korea's currency...
...stars had been a more loaded proposition, given their bonds as an ensemble and the fact that while Robert Wright still has a job, Michael Richards, for one, soon won't. Complicating things further was the fact that Richards, Alexander and Louis-Dreyfus had only recently received huge raises after a much publicized and, by some accounts, bitter holdout before the start of the current season. Their meeting took place Dec. 17 in Seinfeld's dressing room, where the cast traditionally assembles before the last taping of the calendar year to take stock of things. "It was pretty heavy, pretty...
...early 1980s, the network has dominated Thursday nights with programs like Family Ties, Cheers, The Cosby Show, Hill Street Blues and LA Law. For the past five years, Seinfeld has been the keystone of the network's Thursday lineup, which now includes Friends and ER, two other huge hits. The habit viewers have of watching NBC on Thursdays is one of the network's greatest assets, but with no Seinfeld to watch, the audience may fall into a different routine...
Given the company's huge profitable market share in so many areas, Microsoft could afford to give a Netscape-killer away...
Microsoft's reach into many software markets gives it other advantages that work against a competitive market. For years, Microsoft Word had a huge advantage over had a huge advantage over WordPerfect and AmiPro: when a new version of Windows came out, Microsoft's Office suite was the first version to work perfectly with it. Somehow, Microsoft's own application developers usually got their hands on new versions of Windows before their competitors did. Go figure...