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[rant] I just hate articles like these: http://www.scandoil.com/moxie/news/company_news/exxonmobil-the-fourth-lar.shtml
"ExxonMobil – the fourth largest company in Norway
Posted Friday, July 1, 2005
The sales income of ExxonMobil1 in Norway was NOK 43,763 million in 2004 – an increase of more than 30% from 2003. This makes ExxonMobil the 4th largest company in Norway measured in turnover..."
I hate articles like these. Read the line above in italics. Read it again. These articles all do the same thing. They talk about something, and list something as being the x-th largest in the world, where that x is anything bigger than 1. Yet they never say what the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. largest is on that list. The first matters more than the fifth. Sure the article is about Exxon and that company happens to be the 4th largest, but just for comparison and information please list what companies are above Exxon in this list. Like in this one, they say Exxon in the 4th largest company in Norway. Who cares what the 4th largest company is? What is the largest one??? That is more interesting and worthy to know than care about what the fourth largest one is. At least say in a paragraph, albeit say it in a tiny sentence, right at the end of the article is fine with me, what the first, second and third largest companies are. That's what I hate.....[/rant]
"ExxonMobil – the fourth largest company in Norway
Posted Friday, July 1, 2005
The sales income of ExxonMobil1 in Norway was NOK 43,763 million in 2004 – an increase of more than 30% from 2003. This makes ExxonMobil the 4th largest company in Norway measured in turnover..."
I hate articles like these. Read the line above in italics. Read it again. These articles all do the same thing. They talk about something, and list something as being the x-th largest in the world, where that x is anything bigger than 1. Yet they never say what the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. largest is on that list. The first matters more than the fifth. Sure the article is about Exxon and that company happens to be the 4th largest, but just for comparison and information please list what companies are above Exxon in this list. Like in this one, they say Exxon in the 4th largest company in Norway. Who cares what the 4th largest company is? What is the largest one??? That is more interesting and worthy to know than care about what the fourth largest one is. At least say in a paragraph, albeit say it in a tiny sentence, right at the end of the article is fine with me, what the first, second and third largest companies are. That's what I hate.....[/rant]
posted by Abid at 4:55 PM
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