Half a century ago, IBM and organized labor were both monoliths of power and influence in America.
Its amazing powers, in the hands of entrepreneurs, began to foil command-and-control monoliths of any kind.
In Japan, moreover, the Internet is still dominated by the old industry monoliths.
Since the early 1980s scores of established commuter and regional carriers have disappeared into the enveloping arms of a few developing monoliths.
But the reign of these medical monoliths is coming to an end.
Wishing that monoliths like Apple would just bury their heads in the sand while doing nothing to improve the state of their products?
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Once I could drag my gaze from the extraordinary view across Lago Sarmiento to the breathtaking granite monoliths of the Cordillera del Paine, I became increasingly impressed by my surroundings.
To that end he is changing the structure of the research labs, from monoliths to smaller units that are either entrepreneurial (racing to develop a drug) or exploratory (looking for new biology to study).
In a 2011 piece, New York artist Enoc Perez, known for a brushless technique that positions his work somewhere between paintings and prints, depicts the same towers as a pair of striking red monoliths.
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At a busy traffic intersection, Cuban duo Marco Castillo and Dagoberto Rodriguez (known as Los Carpinteros) have placed "Catedrales" (2012), five red-brick monoliths embodying attachments for a cordless electric screwdriver, as an ode to craftsmen.
Cranes will rise in Barcelona, New York, Jerusalem, Las Vegas, Abu Dhabi, Paris and other world centers to construct glass sails, wavy monoliths, bristly multiheaded towers and other alter-the-skyline-forever structures designed by a spectacled, white-haired 78-year-old working out of a bullpen with cardboard furniture in West Los Angeles.
Set beside the twin monoliths of the two main parties, the Green Party provides a home not just for those who think that the environment is the most important issue in politics but also for those who unapologetically loathe free trade, and for those who are furious about special interests.
Those who fear that the city's historical buildings are in danger of being literally overshadowed by modern monoliths might take comfort in the global economic crisis, which has caused some of Moscow's most ambitious new developments, including Norman Foster's 600 meter-high Russia Tower and 450 meter Crystal Island building, to be put on hold.
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