Word: smashed
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...refused to take rejection lying down. FM bullied Summers into accepting its challenge, so each issue of Fall 2003 featured The Larry Summers Tennis Watch. Just when FM was getting discouraged and “it appeared that our weak lob of hope had been crushed by the overhand smash of Presidential indifference,” a miracle happened—Summers agreed to play. Apparently running a drawing of the pudgy president being pelted by tennis balls and cruelly disparaging captions for five weeks worked wonders. In the epic match-up, Summers and his doubles partner, former...
...those of us watching, this year's Oscar crop is a quiet bunch: very serious and not terribly popular. The absence of a pure audience smash is an X factor that adds to the mystery, the thrill of the gamble. And if you haven't seen all the films, don't worry. We have, and to help guide you through the awards, we're handicapping the races. How did we make our picks? From conversations with Academy insiders and nominees, from our experience of Oscars past and, well, from tea leaves. But use these picks for your Oscar pool...
...impress," insists Edna Mode, the diminutive fashionista of the Pixar smash The Incredibles, "you must express!" As Pixar melds with Disney, the big challenge will be to keep expressing originality in an increasingly cluttered field. There's a toon army on the march: this year a record number of animated features will be released, and coming up are the Shrek and Ice Age crews. Here's a sneak peek at what's on the horizon from animation's new power couple...
...Sony, Toyota and Toshiba, manufacturing is still widely regarded as the only honorable industry. Organic growth is esteemed above all, and many large companies still disdain the idea of mergers and acquisitions. To this day, there has never been a successful hostile takeover in Japan. Horie looked to smash these conventions. Rather than expanding slowly over many years, he discovered he could generate outsized growth by rapidly acquiring smaller, financially weaker prey, typically using Livedoor stock as the currency. He cobbled together an empire by purchasing no less than 50 firms, often with the help of so-called special-purpose...
...high-tech shop, part movie studio. Headed by Apple Computer's Steve Jobs and run by John Lasseter, an animator hailed as the next Walt Disney, Pixar has made exactly six computer-animated features in its 20-year history, from Toy Story to The Incredibles. Every one was a smash. Every one was distributed by Disney, which also shared costs and profits...