Word: mammothly
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...Widener Library: 1. Mammoth library built in memory of a Titanic drowning victim. 2. Where students go to pore over books and sometimes, each other...
...lucky break for USAirways? frequent flyers, says TIME Washington correspondent Sally Donnelly. "United generally ranks near the top in customer service surveys, and USAirways is continuously plagued by performance complaints and customer satisfaction troubles," Donnelly says. "Now people watching the merger talks are wondering if such a mammoth airline could maintain any trappings of a service industry - or if it would quickly deteriorate into the customer service equivalent of high-altitude subway trains...
...bother with the Internet? If you want to make money on garage-sale paintings, look for the magnolias. Four paintings by 19th century realist Martin Johnson Heade have been purchased at garage sales and an estate sale for next to nothing in the past few years. Three fetched mammoth prices at Christie's; the fourth is on its way. Magnolias on a Wooden Table, bought by a Racine, Wis., resident for $5, will fetch $200,000 to $300,000, Christie's estimates, at auction on May 25. Two Magnolias on Blue Plush, which cost a Wausau, Wis., man $29, sold...
...hookup. They will link all their tens of thousands of suppliers into a single, Internet-based network. This entity will encompass $250 billion annually of suppliers' products (and perhaps an additional $500 billion of those suppliers' suppliers' products). In short, every penny of waste will be wrung from the mammoth procurement system. The order cycle will speed up dramatically. Medibuy aims for the same hat trick in medical supplies, DigitalThink in training, CarStation in the auto-body-shop world. This is the white-hot world of B2B (business to business) electronic commerce, which will soon encompass trillions upon trillions...
...think really big. In the next 10 or 20 years, what company could become so mammoth we'd look back and chuckle at the notion that we actually once considered GM or Wal-Mart a sizable outfit? It's possible to imagine a few candidates--but you have to crank your imagination surprisingly hard. Here's why: as the world's largest company, Wal-Mart this fiscal year will take inclose to $200 billion in revenue. Think for a minute about how much money that is. If you sold something expensive, like cars averaging $20,000, you'd have...