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...upstart company can skim off the most profitable segment of a market by a providing services only to large companies. Just as cherrypicking insurance companies take advantage of more socially responsible guarantors of health care, "competitive access providers" will be undermining the community minded practices of regulated monopolies...
Newt Gingrich was an upstart minority whip in the House of Representatives. O.J. Simpson was best known as a Hall of Fame running back. Nobody had ever heard of Forrest Gump. And the Kennedy School began its search for a new dean...
...such a seller's market that the sellers wouldn't sell, not just yet. Trading of 5 million shares in the long-awaited initial public offering of the upstart Netscape Communications Corp. was supposed to begin last Wednesday at 9:30 a.m., when the NASDAQ whistle blew. But here it was 90 minutes later, and the institutions and portfolio managers who had received huge blocks of shares still hadn't sold any of their stock. Investors were bidding up the price so fast that the ground floor had yet to be set. What the investment banks had valued...
...twin brother (Gordon Rand) have evolved a rapid-fire patter that tongue-ties everyone around them. Smith and Rand do a nifty job of depicting the deepest sibling affinities. They can finish each other's sentences because they are, finally, one creature: that familiar Shaw character, the Bright Young Upstart, whose iconoclasm glides and shimmers rather than pounds and thunders. Unfortunately, others in the cast (Helen Taylor as the twins' icy sister Gloria, with whom the dentist falls in love; Jack Medley as the world's most dexterous waiter) are not quite up to the mark. The Clandon family...
...When upstart Tse Cashmere opened a Madison Avenue boutique in November, some 250 members of the fashion press showed up to pay their respects to a prospective new advertiser. The editors gossiped, sipped their drinks and looked each other up and down in that New York fashion-business way. A good time was had by all. When they left, most of them carried a small memento from Tse: a $160 cashmere sweater, one per partygoer...