Word: outfits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Only in the digital age can an outfit go from worst to first so quickly. In the past 24 months, AOL has dodged everything from a Bill Gates bull rush (his Microsoft Network spent millions to compete with AOL) to a tussle with the Internet, whose wide-open spaces threatened to make AOL's narrower "gated community" irrelevant. Case, 39, has been famously (if inadvertently) self-destructive, infuriating AOL members by offering too little capacity and too many headaches. Overeager users have crashed parts of the service twice in the past year by bombarding it with more calls than computers...
...investment banker, too busy to pay attention to his ex-wife--"She married a pediatrician or a gynecologist, or a pediatric gynecologist"--and too stuffy to bond with his rakehell brother Conrad (Sean Penn). As a birthday present, Conrad gives Nick a card for CRS, Consumer Recreation Services, an outfit that devises elaborate, personalized games for select clients. And now Nick is the lucky--or doomed--fellow chosen to play. Nick...
Rexx? Ogden? Ladybell? I don't know what this character is talking about, and I've never heard of his outfit, the Dysson Foundation. I E-mail him back to say just that. His quick response: Oops. Could I delete the errant message...
Araskog keeps intact his perfect record in takeover wars, although his empire is shrinking. When he took command in 1979, ITT had sales of $22 billion. His new outfit will have sales of $5.5 billion. That's a play on an old adage too: How do you make a small corporation? Start with a large...
...interpreted Bacon's remarks about the importance of the chain of command as letting most of the guys in my outfit off the hook. After all, we weren't in command of anybody. And we could hardly be charged with "conduct unbecoming to an officer." When it comes to adultery, enlisted men may have reason to be grateful for a double standard...