Word: bigger
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compound," said H. Joseph O'Connor, Dunster House superintendent and building manager in the Houses. "It tends to drive [the cockroaches] down, otherwise it would have been a bigger problem. If we hadn't treated the drains, there would have even more...
Most of the time, if studios go ahead with their use of the Harvard name--despite the University's rejection of their request--Harvard does little. The only measure available is a lawsuit, which often creates a bigger hassle for the University and useful publicity for their antagonists...
...come over to his office means he didn't think any deal was going to happen," says Karmazin, noting that real negotiations take place on neutral turf. But after getting reacquainted with Redstone and discussing a swap of some stations, Karmazin says he began to realize that a bigger deal might be possible...
Well, maybe--except the coming broadband Web seems expressly designed to hasten the demise of Viacom's broadcast-media landscape. "I don't understand how the [TV] networks get bigger," says Joe Krause, senior vice president of content at Excite@Home, one of the broadcast world's likelier rivals. "I only know how they get smaller...
...eBay? The 3 million auctions taking place at any given time on the site appear to be twice that of the rest of the web auctions combined. Despite eBay's series of nasty crashes, it's a lead that just keeps getting bigger as the growing variety of listed items attracts more buyers, which in turns attracts more sellers. How to fight the network effect, a rule that says networks ?- be they made up of fax machines, e-mail or online auctions ?- become exponentially more useful with more users? The answer is simple ?- with a network...