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...animal rights. The human animals who live around the Square also have rights--like the right to breathe something better than the putrid miasma of exhaust and New Age incense that is our local atmosphere. When Li and I finish rolling over the alcinheads, we will stage our own "Monster Tank Rally" and crush the offending cabs...
...carmaker. The transition also reflects the decline of computer manufacturers such as IBM, Wang and Unisys, and the rise of companies like Microsoft, Intel and AT&T that create the chips and software to make the computers work. "Just like Dr. Frankenstein, IBM created these two monster competitors," says Richard Shaffer, publisher of the Computer Letter. "Now even IBM is in danger of being trampled by the creations it unleashed...
...BEEN SLURRED AS "THE Dirty Digger" -- an invidious reference to his origins Down Under -- and reviled as a living replica of Citizen Kane. He has been caricatured (on this magazine's cover) as a King Kongish monster standing atop Manhattan's World Trade Center. Across the globe, an angry legion of ex- employees recalls him as a greedy exploiter who breaks contracts without blinking and treats hirelings like wads of Kleenex...
...mere memory. In software, upstart companies that didn't exist a little more than a decade ago are running rings around the 78-year-old behemoth. And even worse, IBM has been bogged down by endless rounds of painful restructurings and cutbacks. "IBM is no longer the monolithic monster that strikes fear in the hearts of competitors," says Ulric Weil, a leading computer consultant. "It has proved to be quite mortal after...
...would be mistaken to underestimate this company in the future. If it can overcome the enormous challenge of becoming leaner and more responsive to shifting demands, and if it can anticipate the next technological wave rather than resist it, Big Blue still has the potential to be a market monster once again...