A $1 billion global telephone network is planned by BT, the British giant, but analysts see many obstacles.

SmithKline itself is being acquired by another British pharmaceutical giant, Glaxo Wellcome, for $76 billion.

GlaxoSmithKline, the British pharmaceutical giant that sells three of the vaccines cited by the F.D.A., declined to answer specific questions.

The British giant is Philip Morris's main Western rival in many countries.

Partners at Rogers & Wells voted unanimously to join the British giant, Mr. Clark said.

And Euromoney is no British giant, but a grouping of many small but often very profitable publishing ventures.

But for the 400 lawyers at Rogers & Wells, a marriage with the British giant brings global opportunities.

Glaxo, the British pharmaceutical giant, will then have the right to take over the clinical testing and to manufacture and sell the drugs.

He was best known for his spells playing for British giants Liverpool in England and Rangers in Scotland.

Later, from 1969 to 1973, he worked for Courtaulds, a diversified British giant, as it was building a textile division.