If entertainment values rule, a new stock offering floated by two kids in a garage has to be transformed into the David that will surely vanquish a corporate Goliath.

This wee bit of justice, when victim David can demand to face corporate Goliath, makes America feel like a democracy.

As the participation of those corporate Goliaths suggests, this architectural fantasy is big-time business, though money for its completion is yet to be raised.

And in Mr. Clark, they had a client who seems almost Hollywood-scripted to play the modern-day David fighting a corporate Goliath.

This book is not, however, another account of the power of the select group of corporate Goliaths that have gathered to form our de facto global government.

But at 39, what he is - incongruously to many, but logically in his mind - is a metals man who loves playing David to corporate Goliaths.

These days, the battle between drug companies and plaintiffs' lawyers is no longer one between corporate goliaths and individual advocates on a shoestring budget.

Bank of America has ditched its plan to charge a $5 monthly debit card fee: David can still triumph over the corporate Goliath!

To supporters, Mr. Newhard is David fighting the corporate Goliath.

What was often portrayed at first as an individual inventor taking on a corporate Goliath, eventually became a case dominated by arcane arguments over advances in windshield-wiper technology.