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...past several years he has also acquired mobile-phone carriers throughout Asia, and holds big stakes in emerging 3G mobile networks in Europe. Analysts say a restructured Global Crossing could be a formidable and eventually profitable competitor in the international fixed-line business. But it's uncertain when the mammoth oversupply of undersea capacity will be matched by demand...
...Mammoth discounter Wal-Mart looks to be the big winner so far in a dismal Christmas season for retailers, happily reporting Wednesday that its holiday sales for the period between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve came in above company expectations of a 4-6 percent year-over-year increase. Rival Kmart, meanwhile, said its sales from Nov. 22 to Dec. 23 came in at the low end of expectations, but picked up considerably in the last few shopping days before Christmas, with winter apparel - thanks to some cold days - finally getting off the ground. And the ultimate in lazy...
...more at ease when talking about environmental issues or, better yet, the love of his life, Sundance. He warms when he speaks of the "cinema centers" that at this point are still a dream. He calls them "a mammoth undertaking" in which grand old Art Deco movie palaces would be restored and programmed with independent pictures and documentaries and equipped with libraries for film students...
When National Institutes of Health then-President Harold Varmus tapped Hyman for the NIMH post in 1996, Hyman was presented with a mammoth task—balancing the needs of scientists, politicians, and patients—and a $1 billion budget...
Seven Senate and House hearings in the past three weeks have offered a welter of ideas for change, including a mammoth electronic database to track the comings and goings of all foreign visitors. (Such an information bank could cost $500 million, and is drawing cries of xenophobia.) Already passed in the antiterrorism package is a measure that will triple the number of immigration agents along the 4,000-mile Canadian border guarded in some places by nothing more than orange cones. Senator Edward Kennedy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary's immigration subcommittee and a longtime champion of open borders, will...