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It's a curiosity of our age that just as the press, unable to find ideological or philosophical concerns in public life, is obsessed instead with the puny private lives of the powerful, so also business, freed of the obligation to consider the public interest in its deal-making, gives play to the purely personal.
The competitive advantage the world's largest retailer enjoys over its rivals in a robust economy would be even greater during hard times, when those puny competitors would be battered by economic gales, which to the mighty chain are but gentle zephyrs, Flickinger breezily implied.
This compares to the puny installation requirement of 5 megs to 10 megs of hard-disk space for a similar array of DOS applications, circa 1988: WordPerfect, Lotus 123, dBase, Crosstalk, etc.
After a period of adjustment, during which many long home runs will seem puny, we'll slowly reacclimate ourselves to reality.
It is, of course, beneath my dignity to respond to this personally motivated attack (except to note that if you think Stephen Jay Gould actually deigned to read my puny book, you must be getting him mixed up with someone whose time is less precious).