Word: behemoth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...City Council last night threatened to sue the Massachusetts government to block construction of a proposed 28-lane highway interchange in East Cambridge, warning at a jam-packed meeting that the 11-story behemoth would devastate the city...
...behemoth diet industry may be throwing too much weight around. Critics say some companies use misleading promotional campaigns and promise more than the programs can deliver. Moreover, the safety of at least a few of the plans has been called into question. Congress is holding hearings to determine whether the diet industry should be more tightly regulated, and various Government agencies are studying ways to get tough on questionable practices in the business...
Congress holds hearings to determine if the behemoth weight-loss industry needs tighter controls. Companies often promise more than they deliver...
Everyone knows that the sick Soviet economy needs a remedy. But is there a prescription for converting a torpid communist behemoth into a sleek free- market machine? It was assistant managing editor Karsten Prager's idea that TIME, which has periodically convened groups of experts to diagnose the U.S. and European economies, could offer some friendly advice. In the spirit of glasnost, we called in a specialist to collaborate with TIME's Washington- based national-economics correspondent Richard Hornik in composing the Rx memo to Mikhail that appears in this week's business section...
...industry dominated by giant Hollywood studios and behemoth budgets, Miramax Films has succeeded against all odds. With only 40 employees, it has found a niche marketing shrewdly chosen, low-budget "art house" films, most of which have been rejected by the big studios as noncommercial. Miramax Co- Chairmen Harvey Weinstein, 37, and his brother Bob, 35, have proved them wrong. Three of the ten films they released last year -- My Left Foot, Cinema Paradiso and sex, lies, and videotape -- are up for a total of seven Academy Awards this month. The Weinsteins have also earned something rare among independents...