1.   For years, two giant recording companies have had a stranglehold on the CD Market.

2.   It was the ultimate expression of the rational, mechanical approach to giant company administration....

3.   Compared with the small operators they took over, the giant companies deal with a wide range of rubbish.

4.   And city officials, in turn, say the conference merely allows them to show off Austin to a couple-hundred giant companies at once.

5.   And where an apple-grower might turn his harvest over to a giant packing company, he says, a vineyard manager develops personal relationships with winemakers.

6.   As chairman of the Ameritech Corp., the giant Midwest telephone company, you also crave some measure of privacy.

7.   At Coca-Cola, Roberto C. Goizueta remains a legend, the chief executive whose vision and drive transformed the giant company into a global power.

8.   At first glance, America Online and Time Warner seem to face no major problems from antitrust regulators as they merge their giant companies.

9.   At the time the commission hailed the joint ruling as a model of how to tackle giant companies.