Word: behemoths
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...Along with British royalty, beneficiaries include multinational food companies such as Nestle, Cadbury, Kraft; drug companies such as GlaxoSmithKline, and brewers like Heineken and Grolsch. Money even flows to tobacco giant Philip Morris, the oil behemoth Shell and even the airline Air France-KLM. British sugar giant Tate & Lyle alone received more than $443 million over a two-year period. TIME has recently chronicled similar patterns in U.S. farm subsidies...
...Calabria and the Camorra around Naples, the Mob is not just murderous, but also a major drag on Italy's economic development. A recent report by the Confesercenti small-business association estimated that organized crime accounts for 7% of Italy's GDP, a larger share than any corporate behemoth, even the energy giant ENI. The Sicilian Mob is one of Italy's original multinationals, having partnered with its Italo-American cousins and gangsters around the world to traffic drugs and weapons, launder money and promote other illegal cross-border business...
...from his award winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth to Norway where he recently received the Nobel Peace Prize. Many Americans would naturally assume Gore follows the green lifestyle he widely promotes, and they would be wrong. Gore and his wife Tipper, whose children all live elsewhere, reside in a behemoth 20-room mansion outside of Nashville that used nearly 23,000 kilowatt-hours last August, more than twice the annual—yes, annual—energy usage of a typical American home. Gore’s preferred mode of transportation between stops on his international publicity tour...
...decapitates one of the first people he meets—a man who, like all dutifully atheistic Soviets, refuses to believe in the Dark Lord’s existence. With a supernatural and motley crew that includes a scantily clad witch-maid and an enormous, talking, sarcastic cat named Behemoth, Satan spreads chaos throughout the city, befuddling bureaucrats and toying with the populace’s deepest yearnings for consumer goods. Meanwhile, a character known only as the Master, condemned to live in a mental institution after writing a historical account of Jesus’s crucifixion?...
...capita income is just $225. Even more galling, the junta turned a thicket of jungle into a brand new administrative capital in late 2005, a project that doubtless cost hundreds of millions of dollars to build. Today, Naypyidaw is an eerie landscape of broad, empty streets framed by behemoth government ministries. "It's a complete waste of money," says a senior journalist in Rangoon who asked not to be named for fear of being arrested. "The same money could have been used to meet the needs of the poor population...