Word: mammoth
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...still sometimes cuts prices to drive sales, softening both profit margins and its brand image. For example, LG sees 5% profit margins on its mobile phones; Samsung earns in excess of 20%. Nor does it help that LG Electronics is a member of one of South Korea's mammoth, family-controlled conglomerates, called chaebols, which are infamous for mysterious and convoluted business practices. In February the company broke a promise to investors by pledging $130 million to buy bonds of a nearly bankrupt affiliate, credit-card issuer LG Card. Kim says his company joined in because a failure...
...York’s veteran auteur Woody Allen can hardly get away with that trick very well, at least lately, and when you bear more resemblance to Woody Allen than Keanu Reeves, with about as much chutzpah as the latter, it’s a mammoth challenge. Not that Braff’s character, Andrew Largeman, requires anything resembling chutzpah: He plays a medicated, reluctant Jew, an aspiring actor returning home for his mother’s funeral. But if his style were any remoter, Braff could almost dissolve into the background of his strangely familiar, familiarly strange scenery...
...Urich Vega$ (though, for his part, Spelling says some of the new, decency-cautious series "make Vegas seem like a church"). But the new programs also show how some of our mores have changed. Consider the casino-based series, which place the viewers' sympathies with management--that is, with mammoth businesses predicated on systematically beating the little guy, one hand at a time. TV once made populist heroes of rascally underdogs like Bo and Luke Duke and con men and cardsharps like Bret Maverick. Today--The Cooler and the Ocean's Eleven remake notwithstanding--we more often root...
...still sometimes cuts prices to drive sales, softening both profit margins and its brand image. For example, LG sees 5% profit margins on its mobile phones; Samsung earns in excess of 20%. Nor does it help that LG Electronics is a member of one of South Korea's mammoth, family-controlled conglomerates, called chaebols, which are infamous for mysterious and convoluted business practices. In February the company broke a promise to investors by pledging $130 million to buy bonds of a nearly bankrupt affiliate, credit-card issuer LG Card. Kim says his company joined in because a failure...
...still sometimes cuts prices to drive sales, softening both profit margins and its brand image. For example, LG sees 5% profit margins on its mobile phones; Samsung earns in excess of 20%. Nor does it help that LG Electronics is a member of one of South Korea's mammoth, family-controlled conglomerates, called chaebols, which are infamous for mysterious and convoluted business practices. In February the company broke a promise to investors and pledged $130 million to buy bonds of a nearly bankrupt affiliate, credit-card issuer LG Card. Kim says his company joined in because a failure...