Word: mammothly
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...still months away. John Battelle, author of a book on Google, thinks transatlantic rivalry might be playing an outsized role. "I'm skeptical of government forays into free-market economies when the primary motivation is political," he says. And even if Quaero should prove revolutionary, to compete with the mammoth Internet companies it's best to own the domain Quaero.com. That name, however, already belongs to the North Carolina-based marketing and technology company Quaero Corporation. Patrick Dineen, its senior vice president of sales and marketing, says he is curious about his company's European namesake. He's not alone...
...course the biggest beneficiaries are those who get the mammoth checks and, in not a few instances, are so thankful they head straight for the door and sign up with a different brokerage promising them even greater riches next year. These do not include secretaries and clerks, whose bonuses run $10,000 or so. The folks who do the heavy lifting-that is, bankers who dream up odds-are-they'll-fail mergers over bottles of wine that cost $1,000 and traders who pass around the same piece of paper all day adding God-only-knows-what value...
...Pioneer Elite VSX-72TXV Receiver (pioneerelectronics.com; $1,200): This mammoth audio-video surround-sound receiver takes all different types of video, from DVDs, VCRs, cable boxes - you name it-and routes them through one wire to your high-definition TV. It's compatible with XM satellite radio's new "Connect and Play" technology: you plug in the special XM antenna and, as long as you've got a subscription, you get all of the XM stations listed right on the receiver's display, and on the TV. In fact, this receiver has so many bells and whistles, it's easy...
...financial deans at Harvard’s schools, provided by Berman, said that the recent years’ increases to endowment payout had not kept pace with the University’s soaring investment returns. Investment returns were up 19.2 percent last fiscal year, growing the endowment to a mammoth $25.9 billion. Harvard earned a 21 percent return the previous year...
...autobiography and transformed them into masterpieces of their form. But since graphic novels have gotten such a late start in finding a serious-minded audience, the coming-of-age story has only recently gotten enough work to even be called a sub-genre. Two years ago Craig Thompson's mammoth-sized Blankets, about growing up in the devout Christian hinterlands of Wisconsin, became the first such work to gain both critical and popular success. This month will see the arrival of two more very strong books based on the authors' childhood. Harvey Pekar's The Quitter, comes from a veteran...