Word: behemoths
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Soaring gas prices? Perfect timing for those impervious to market fluctuations--and eager to show it--to snap up the Unimog. The ultimate in suvs, the $84,000 behemoth gets 10 m.p.g. and scoffs at quaint notions like a recession or an energy crisis. Indeed, when DaimlerChrysler began showcasing it last fall in the U.S. through its Freightliner division (until this year the Mog has been available only in Europe and Asia), the Sierra Club dubbed it "Daimlersaurus Wrecks." But, hey, it's more intimidating than the Hummer and more versatile. Each truck can be customized from its bare chassis...
Then he quit in February, leaving behind the world's third most popular online network, a behemoth with 98 million registered users in 41 countries and, because of Telefonica's 23 million wireless customers, a guaranteed global reach...
...Leading the parade, ironically, is Enron, an old energy behemoth that has reinvented itself as a high-tech trading firm dealing in everything from natural gas to Internet bandwidth. In fact, its new 40-story headquarters, designed by Cesar Pelli, will be fronted by a seven-story "podium"--or shorter building--to house what Enron is calling the largest commodities-trading environment in the world...
...second, and ultimately more important consideration was the Bush Administration's promise to remake the military. The $300 billion a year behemoth evolved to meet the threats of the last century, but the war it was built to fight ended in 1991. Since then, the challenge has been to redefine its strategic mission and rebuild its capabilities accordingly - a process that will inevitably involve some painful cutting of projects dear to the hearts of generals, politicians and defense industry lobbyists...
...many people outside the Harvard campus," says Schorr, “it’s an opportunity to see Harvard as more than an academic or elitist behemoth. They see that goofy parade coming down Mass Avenue and follow it to the picnic. Then they spend the rest of the afternoon taking in all kinds of music, dance, drama and film in some remarkably diverse settings.” Arts First thus has the ability to not only involve campus students and faculty but also to include the Cambridge and Boston community...