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...famous performing killer whale." (Actually there are three Shamus, one for each Sea World park.) The Shamu Celebration veers toward the icky, especially when the heavenly choir from a burger commercial sings reverently, "It's what Shamu means to you and to me." And when a trio of the behemoth's trainers present their what-I-love- about-Shamu testimonials, the onlooker half expects one of them to say, "My whale, I think I'll keep her." But it is a thrill to see a 4,000-lb. killer whale balance a human on its nose, or pirouette on point...
...downsized from 11 1/2 in. to 3 3/4 in., rang up revenues of $132 million last year. While still a conventional toy, the fighting man has a battalion of colleagues and a battery of weapons. The biggest accessory is his aircraft carrier, a 7 1/2-ft.-long behemoth that carries 100 Joes and sells...
...London stock market is starting to look a lot like Wall Street. Suddenly large takeovers are in flower. In New York it might seem almost child's play, but in Britain a billion-dollar merger or acquisition remains a remarkable event. Last week several behemoth-size deals were in the offing. Argyll, a supermarket chain, offered $2.8 billion to acquire Distillers, maker of Johnnie Walker Scotch and Gordon's gin, and Britain's General Electric bid $1.8 billion for Plessey, an electronics firm...
...once geographical and conceptual. The Beltway is a 66-mile highway that encompasses the District of Columbia and parts of Maryland and Virginia. Some 1.5 million people live within its confines, sustained by Government jobs, contracts, consultancies and the endless tasks of explaining and influencing the federal behemoth. "They are the most protected single group of people in America today," says the President's pollster, Richard Wirthlin, whose studies show these citizens far beyond the norm in education, income and political involvement. They are shielded from most economic shocks by the deep pockets of the U.S. Treasury; the deficit...
...page study, called Corporate Classrooms: The Learning Business, represents more than two years of research by Carnegie Trustee Nell Eurich on what has been a disconnected and poorly observed educational behemoth. U.S. companies, Eurich reports, are training and educating nearly 8 million people, close to the total enrollment in America's four-year colleges and universities. According to Carnegie President Ernest Boyer, the corporate classroom has quietly become "a kind of third leg of the education system in the U.S." And it is one of the strongest forces for continuing adult education. Courses range from remedial English to nuclear engineering...