Word: titanic
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...French business titan Jean-Marie Messier been a footballer, he might not be suffering disgrace and joblessness today. Last month, after France's World Cup humiliation, President Jacques Chirac advised disgruntled fans against turning on their beloved Bleus - warning "we mustn't burn today what we considered beautiful yesterday." Messier wasn't so lucky. Though once regarded as a national hero for turning a sleepy French water company into the world's second-largest media group, Vivendi Universal, Messier saw his corporate reign come to an ignoble end last week as the stock market and the French media, business...
...consolidating a debt-ridden, fragmented European cable industry worth $70 billion, he thinks he can achieve the economies of scale in programming, equipment and marketing that helped turn TCI into such a titan. But he faces a much tougher task on a continent that, despite its efforts at economic union, confronts any newcomer with a thicket of regulatory and cultural barriers. "Malone has been getting an education in Europe," notes Tom Crema, a partner in Compere Associates, the London investment firm that is bidding for some of the same German cable assets that Malone failed to win earlier this year...
Dell's big drawback: it's still a box company. The Texas titan relies almost completely on Intel and Microsoft for its technology, whereas all its competitors have hefty research facilities of their...
...idea of a national ID card system has been around for decades, but the recent terrorist attacks--and an unlikely champion--have given it new life. According to the San Jose Mercury News, Larry Ellison, zillionaire CEO of software titan Oracle, met with Attorney General Ashcroft last week to drum up support for his scheme: all immigrants and consenting U.S. citizens would be issued a "smart card"--like a credit card with a microchip--linked to federal records of their vital statistics, including their thumbprint...
...another Republican, The Crimson would be replete with articles and letters criticizing his narrow-minded patriotism and his lack of careful thinking. He would be childishly referred to as “Captain America,” leading the U.S. to war like “a blind Titan.” Yet, for the simple fact that Gore is the darling of many starry-eyed liberals on campus, this will not happen. Nonetheless, I challenge the Harvard College Democrats to attack Gore as harshly as they have the Republican leaders who share his views, and I urge the Republicans...