Word: mega
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said the likely result will be something between the traditional, fiercely competitive, stand-alone model of the 1980s, where each hospital offered a full array of services, and the formation of a single mega-hospital...
...beef (and 540 calories), it makes the famed 3.2-oz. Big Mac look puny. And other behemoth burgers are being given regional tryouts. In Texas, McDonald's is testing the Double Texas Homestyle Burger, with 8 oz. of beef, and Washington, D.C., outlets are featuring the Mega Mac, which stacks up two quarter-pound patties with cheese, lettuce, pickles and special sauce on a sesame-seed bun, of course. Appropriately, the chain's current promotional tie-in is with the movie Jurassic Park: ads tout "Dino-Size" fries and soft drinks fit for a Tyrannosaurus...
Ministers are often the first to see the dangers of supply-side spirituality. "Patterning the church after a mega-supermarket can only lead us to failure," warns Methodist D. Stephen Long of Duke University's Divinity School. "I'm not opposed to the churches using some marketing techniques, but I fear what is happening is that marketing techniques are beginning to use the church. We can't target groups we want for the church simply by locating points of desire. Somewhere there's got to be some judgment about whether these desires are appropriate." He rejects the notion that...
...same period. United States Surgical Corp. chairman Leon Hirsch has been awarded 2.8 million shares (current market value: $186 million) since 1991, even though his company's stock has underperformed the Standard & Poor's 500 index by 3 percentage points. The award is an extreme example of so-called mega-options, grants consisting of at least 250,000 shares. The number of mega-options issued by corporations has increased 300% since...
...quick review of that document would also remind us of something we tend to forget in this age of federal mega-bureaucracy: namely, that the government is our creation for our needs, not an independent entity that should follow its own opinion in matters that affect us. The state, like the hypothetical head of the family, has no right to purchase its own clear conscience and good public image at the price of sacrificing the interests of those to whom it is primarily answerable...