So they raced to show off their global "macro" bona fides and that they grokked and were protected from the mega forces that might slam their portfolios in the future.
The mega forces driving sustainability deep into business -- such as climate change, resource constraints, and transparency -- are getting stronger.
Mega-forces like widening income inequality, crushing debt burdens, and the politically-toxic mismatch between our immigration policy and inability to properly educate children for the jobs needed today combine to form a potent mix of stagnation.
In general, discrepancy in calculated figures in the first, and the overall drop and form of the Abay River gorge coupled with the observed landslide-caused landform changes in the second, led us to deduce that slope failures were part of the mega-forces that shaped the entire Blue Nile basin, and in fact, played the dominant role in landscape evolution.
When the Soviets exploded their Hiroshima-scale bomb, the U.S. decided to develop a "super" bomb, the hydrogen bomb, based not on fission but thermonuclear fusion, the mega-forces contained in stars.
Earlier this year, he published a book, "The Entertainment Economy: How Mega-Media Forces Are Transforming Our Lives," and he has worked hard to promote it.
Maybe the path of least resistance would be easier for Mylan's board: After all, in recent days, the willful mega-investor forced energy and chemicals firm Kerr-McGee to buy back stock, challenged management at Temple-Inland, and, in a grand stroke, got himself and two compatriots elected to the board of Blockbuster.
It wasn't exactly world-class skiing, but much like megastores have replaced small independent retailers, mega-resorts forced out the little guys.
