Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What happened between last week's derring-do and October 1996, when Business Week sounded the voice of doom in a cover story called "Cable TV: The Looming Crisis?" Not much. The industry remains burdened with $50 billion of debt, still requires huge capital outlays, is threatened by satellite and wireless competition and has little earnings. As for Gates' investment, it's a pittance. Microsoft has $9 billion in cash on its books. Gates can afford to cover all bets...
...face was gone." David William Klaus, whose daughter died in the bombing, told the jury that he and his wife got married on April 19, 1963, but now they celebrate their anniversary on the following day. Struggling to hold back tears, Klaus said, "There's just this huge hole in my heart that's never going to be filled...
...full embrace of the left. The cohabitation may not be easy to manage. Jospin, 59, is an austere former diplomat and economics professor who has promised to change much of the President's economic policy. Chirac, 64, is an instinctive political operator who is determined to trim France's huge welfare state. But they are likely to try to get along. "Neither man seeks a fight," says political analyst Pascal Perrineau. "Chirac doesn't have the means. He's a naked king...
...Army, beset by sex scandals and an increasingly hard time recruiting new soldiers, is putting its $80 million account--now held by Young & Rubicam--up for review. That couldn't be more fitting, because the ad wars are turning Madison Avenue into a shelled-out battleground where huge chunks of business are blasted loose and flying around, creating career casualties when they land. At Burnett, a boardroom coup in March toppled CEO Bill Lynch and his protege, Jim Jenness, and restored chairman Rick Fizdale...
Albright: We should care because twice in this century Americans fought and died in Europe because there were national conflicts, border conflicts, power surges by one country or another. We feel better when Europe is united and democratic. It's frankly a huge, good market. Stability brings trade, and trade brings jobs...